Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic’s Daily Dish continues his critique of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.”

How can the stock market hit new highs at the same time unemployment is hitting new highs? Robert Reich explains, at Salon.

When Sarah Palin's 413-page autobiography, "Going Rogue," hit the stands Tuesday, readers discovered that it lacks an index. So Slate has compiled its own.

Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics wonders whether the latest Rasmussen poll of likely GOP primary voters is correct in showing Norm Coleman their clear favorite for Minnesota governor. (via)

Walter Shapiro describes how Sarah Palin could win the 2012 GOP nomination, at Politics Daily.

The Economist weighs in on Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and his prospects in the Republican presidential pool.

New currents within Chinese society provide an opening for President Obama to press Beijing on hard questions while in Beijing, write Cheng Li and Jordan Lee at Brookings.

Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic says of President Obama's speech at Fort Hood Tuesday, "I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice."

Charles Mahtesian lists Politico's 10 election contests in 2010 to keep an eye on — and one of them is in Minnesota. 

"Hip-hop might just beat out classical music as the most misunderstood and unfairly maligned musical genre in existence today," writes Sam Bergman at Inside the Classics.

The Bonddad Blog finds something for both bears and bulls to like in the latest national unemployment figures, which show the rate at 10.2 percent, the first time since 1983 that it’s hit double digits.

John McWhorter lists 10 books on race that should be more widely read. "If I ever taught a course on black issues, these would all be on the syllabus," he says at The Root.

David Plouffe's "The Audacity to Win" is a powerful reminder of what the country voted for last year -- and could serve as the trigger for President Obama and his team to refocus, writes Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post.

The Twins' business model has produced "one of the sleekest, most efficient franchises in baseball, which ... racked up the third most victories per dollar invested in player salary for the 2009 season," writes Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics.

The Republican Party is deeply conservative, while America is predominantly conservative, writes Bay Buchanan at Townhall, adding, "It is the party label that has trouble, not the philosophy which was once its driving force."

Politics in Minnesota and House Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, discuss what’s ahead for next year’s legislative session.

President Barack Obama probably will manage expectations on Afghanistan by setting them very low, says John Dickerson at Slate.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty "has nowhere to go but up," writes Mark Silva in the Chicago Tribune's The Swamp. Most people, he says, have never heard of Pawlenty or hold no opinion.

The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism, says Michael Lind at Salon.

Democrats in Congress, increasingly worried about the 2010 elections, want stronger medicine for fear the health-care reforms will prove to be a house of cards, writes David Rogers at Politico.

Yael T. Abouhalkah of the Kansas City Star argues that President Obama’s war with Fox News is entering a dangerous phase.

Bemidji Mike assesses unemployment figures in various parts of Minnesota at The View From This Side of the Lake in the Bemidji Pioneer.

The government should take more direct action to stem the tide of joblessness that is hampering the recovery, writes Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at HuffingtonPost.

For the third consecutive quarter, Rep. Tim Walz relied more on "home grown" individual itemized (i.e. "large donor") contributions than did any other Minnesota House member, writes Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics.

"A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue." So says John Le Carré, who was born on this day in 1931. 

On the blog Hedcuts, Wall Street Journal stipple artist Noli Novak accuses another artist of “a bold case of plagiarism (?).” (via)

What's up with all the Republican references to Nazis these days, asks Maria Newman at the New York Times' The Caucus blog.

What's the most important number in politics right now? One, says Chris Cillizza at The Fix -- for the health-care vote cast Tuesday by Sen. Olympia Snowe.

Keith Goetzman offers a collection of the Coen brothers' quotes from their recent Walker appearance, at Utne Blogs.

David Sirota at Salon says, "Call me a zombie pundit, but I agree with 'World War Z' author Max Brooks' suggestion that the concurrent rise of zombie pop and political cultures is no coincidence."