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As long as they aren't using searches to discriminate on the basis of your political views your public activity is mostly fair game.

Monica Goodling's lexis/nexis candidate screening search for Department of Justice career candidates [probably going to be munged by slashdot filter]:

[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!

Actually, it's worse than that, according to a "reference librarian," who says:

"...they were going through 99% unrelated citations. There need to be a very nested set of parentheses to make the terms work. Starting with one after the w/7. Fired and sex are ORâ(TM)ed twice and need to be nested at least in the case of Fired and the ORâ(TM)d terms immeadiately following."

Also here, here and here. It was probably done more than once.

Consider:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Thom as+Friedman+is+an+idiot

especially:

http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/002039.html

No recommendations though.

Many of these pictures even show other people photographing the sculpture, hehe.

If indeed it's forbidden to photograph that huge hunk of metal, that's one heck of a toothless law if I ever saw one ;)

Daniel Drezner has some interesting analysis on his site. His linked articles, especially the Foreign Affairs one, are also good.

I, by the way, am pretty agnostic on this issue, and linked to only one side because it's the only good discussion I've seen. (As opposed to, say, Lou Dobbs using an hour of CNN every night to rant about evil Mexicans.) I'd welcome similar links on the anti- side.

Altercation (what liberal media?)

Here are some blogs I like that are often political, but not stupidly partisan, such as:

• The Volokh Conspiracy -- mostly libertarian law professors
• Marginal Revolution -- a couple of economists, one of whom also posts at The Volokh Conspiracy
• Daniel Drezner-- a political scientist
• Foreign Dispatches--a Nigerian-American programmer with many interesting perspectives.
• ParaPundit--some random bloke named Randall Parker, a computer programmer, I think.

In case you haven't heard, BlogLines is a great way to read blogs online.

Not to criticize js7a--he gave you fair warning--but his list leans to the left. I don't know if I have the definitive right-leaning counterexample, but here's a list of guys who are biased right but seem to be fair in their analysis...
mainstream media:
Best of the Web Today
Andrew Sullivan
The Corner
blogs:
Instapundit
oxblog
JustOneMinute
Daniel Drezner
Captains Quarters
cartoons:
Cox and Forkum
Day by Day

All are blogs and/or openly opinionated. They are generally right wing. This is in no way a complete list, and should not even be considered the "best of", since I haven't spent a lot of time exploring. YMMV.

I'd actually be interested in hearing from people who knew of right-leaning blogs not on this list that they recommended. I am not trying to start a flame war about who's better or why Instapundit/Daily Kos is a snooty liar.

He basically wrote all these economic books and once he was hired by the Bush administration, he contradicts his writings.

For an economically-informed discussion of outsouring, see this article by Daniel Drezner.