Daily Briefing: The Bouffant of Wisdom
- UN, like Goldilocks, needs to find sanctions for North Korea that are not too harsh, not too weak. [WP, NYT, WSJ]
- White House believes nuclear test was a "big deal" even if the bomb was made out of chewing gum, popsicle sticks. [NYT, USAT]
- Kim Jong-Il isn't crazy, just crazy in love with Bree Van De Kamp. [LAT]
- Hastert holds press conference to remind congressional staffers that shit still flows downhill. [WP, NYT]
- McCain unsure if it's 2008 or 1998, blasts both Clintons to hedge his bets. [WP]
- More than twice as many Iraqis have died violently since 2003, than in the previous 20 years under the Hussein regime. [WSJ]
- The case of a recently killed Russian journalist and the long dead Russian independent media. [WP, NYT]