Tuesday Evening News and Notes

Plenty of new posts below. Here's some other great stuff from around the net:

Blogs are influential. The NY Times even says so. I guess someone still reads that rag.

A must read about the declining city of Detroit. Matt Labash writes like I wish I could. Picture at right of modern day Detroit courtesy of this site.

Richard Cohen's panties are in a wad over Obama choosing Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration.

A convenient document dump. Obama's in Hawaii, his internal report on the Blago disaster is released two days before Christmas and it shows that they have been lying. Emanuel had more than one discussion with Blago (perhaps multiple).

Sen. Chris Dodd, the man who had the responsibility of overseeing the banking industry and took advantage with sweetheart loans from Countrywide still refuses to discuss his shady dealings.

More good news for bloggers.