Recommended Websites


News & Commentary

CNN Not the most objective news organization on the planet, but they have a very user-friendly web layout.

Drudge Report The great-granddaddy of the link aggregation sites, and the scourge of the traditional American news industry. A great place to find news stories not reported in the national media.

Investor's Business Daily Since the Wall Street Journal has put most of their content behind a paywall, IBD is now a favorite source of economics, business, and general news.

Instapundit The granddaddy of aggregation sites. The author is a prefessor of Constitutional Law at the University of Tennessee. He sees things from a Constitutional, small "L" libertarian perspective, with lots of content relating to his other interests; technology, sci-fi, etc.

Althouse Ann Althouse's blog. Another law prof. Commentary on politics and culture, with some wit.

NewsBusters A site which critiques and fact-checks the national press.

The Washington Examiner A small independent newspaper covering the DC swamp.

National Post One of the major Canadian newspapers, with a conservative bent. Well-written editorials.

Samizdata A blog by a bunch of British libertarians. Offers some interesting commentary on Britain and the EU.

Powerline A blog on politics, culture, and economics.

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Business, Economics,  and Finance

Thomas Sowell If you are not familiar with Sowell, you should take a look. He is an economics professor who also opines on culture and politics. You'll find upwards of a thousand videos on YouTube featuring Sowell.

Angry Bear Economic analysis from a left-wing perspective.

Greg Mankiw's blog Economic analysis from a right-wing perspective. I have one of Mankiw's economics textbooks; its quite good.

Marginal Revolution Another econ blog.

Stephen Bainbridge's blog He's a law prof, but much of his content involves economics and business.

Megan McArdle's column in The Atlantic When she writes on cultural topics, her stuff is half-baked IMO. But her writing on business and economics is very, very good.

Humor

Dilbert Not only funny, but insightful commentary on life in the cube farm.

xkcd A comic for nerds.

The Onion A faux news service that presents fictional news satirizing modern culture. All too often, a farcical story in the Onion is eventually replicated in real life.

Best Of The Web Today Due to the WSJ's format, I cannot provide a direct link. Look for the "Best of the Web Today" link on the Opinion Journal page. Some news, some commentary, some humor (usually down at the bottom of the page).

There, I Fixed It A hilarious visual compendium of bubblegum-and-bailing-wire repairs. Part of the failblog.org family of web sites. Warning; while There, I fixed It is pretty clean, quite a bit of content on Failblog is not safe for work. There's also a lot of juvenile stuff that I don't always get. At the bottom of each page, there are links to the other websites. I enjoy Lovely Listing, Failbook, WIN!, Very Demotivational, and GraphJam. 



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