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I’ll start today’s installment of “Link Mess” with words of praise for Jonah Goldberg. Jonah praised President Barack Obama’s handling of the pirate situation. He was immediately criticized by some – he says that most emails he received were positive – and decided to publish a follow-up post in which he explains quite well why he praised Obama, and why he will do so again whenever he believes the president makes the right call. “I am strongly pro-tax cuts, pro-free market, pro-federalism, anti-judicial activism, pro-school choice, pro-gun rights, and pro-shooting pirates who take Americans hostage or harass our ships. When Obama’s policy choices overlap with mine, I will congratulate him for it as much as I think warranted.” He adds that he disagrees strongly with those who say that conservatives should do to Obama and progressives in general what they did to Bush and the conservative movement in the last eight year. “I don’t do propaganda, I don’t want to do propaganda, and I don’t know why anyone in my line of work would want to do propaganda,” he writes. I agree completely. It is, therefore, shocking to read that he is being attacked by Rush Limbaugh today – or so he writes in his post.

Bad news for those who believe that San Francisco, France, Europe and New York City are hell on earth: Daily Kos says that a majority of Americans have a favorable opinion of all of them.

Harry’s Place takes a closer look at the interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, published by German newspaper Der Spiegel recently. The conclusion: “The political power of nuclear weapons is rooted in the fear which they generate, in the compromises they enforce upon others; you can use them without exploding them. An Iran emboldened by nuclear weapons means a Middle East in which antisemitism, homophobia and theocratic tyranny become even further entrenched.”

“We’re not getting Afghanistan right, and nothing in the latest plans suggest that we will get it right any time soon.  Are we even sure what it is we hope to accomplish or even why we’re trying to accomplish it?” wonders Lex at Scholars and Rogues. Read the entire article and bookmark S&D (which is run by Russ Wellen, a friend of mine).

AJ Strata believes that science proves that Al Gore and his fellow climate change-hysterics are wrong.”It is about to get scientifically really uncomfortable for Al Gore and the Church of IPCC. It seems that some serious analysis has discerned that, without the biased GISS data that has been proven wrong time and time again, there actually is no global warming.” For some reason, Strata seems to be unable to understand the following: this is not about science, it is about faith.

Chuck Todd will get his own political show on MSNBC, Ron Chusid writes. Great news, isn’t it? Another liberal pundit getting a show on MSNBC. That’s… incredibly surprising and refreshing. Heh.

Michelle Obama has succeeded in ruining Easter for children everywhere. How? By making “Diet and Excercise” the theme of the First Lady’s first White House Easter Egg Roll. As I understand it, she plans to make “Go to Bed Early, Eat Vegetables” the theme of her first Christmas party later this year.

The Swamp reports that most Americans believe that President Obama has not made the U.S. more likely to be attacked by terrorists. Dick Cheney disagrees. Joe Biden does not. It was to be expected from the former, of course, but the latter may disagree. After all, isn’t he the man who promised voters that America would face a “major international crisis” during Obama first couple of months in power?

Ever wondered what all those tea parties are about exactly? Scott Johnson has the answer. It seems to me that it is a mixture of voters being fed up where America is now, and scared of where it might be several years from now. Donald Douglas also wrote an interesting post about the phenomenon. Read the whole thing.

Lastly, Jesse Jackson Jr. is in trouble: he reportedly told former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich that he would raise $5 million for the governor if appointed to Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Come on! That’s not “pay-to-play” – it’s “pay-to-say-thank-you.” Also blogged at Protein Wisdom.