Thursday Morning Links

It's cold in South Jersey as it is in a large swath of the country but today the political season heats up. Here's some must reads of the day:

General Petraeus answers seven questions at Foreign Policy.

Hate is an addiction.

Four great questions about support of special interest groups at colleges.

You probably haven't thought of ships on the Great Lakes since the last time you heard Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreak of the Edmund Fitzgerald but Fred Fry has been and he's got pictures.

Over at No More Spin, thoughts on the weight that both Iowa and New Hampshire carry in presidential politics.

Robert Mugabe continues to lead Zimbabwe down a path that will make them the next Sudan.