Links of interest for August 24th, 2008 through September 30th, 2008:

• Housing Prices in the Three Americas - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
  - A large fraction of the ?troubled assets? that the government may soon buy from Wall Street are backed by real property. When the dust clears, how much will all that property be worth?
• The Reality-Based Community: “A conspiracy so vast … “
  - John McCain admits, on camera, that he has not, since its release three days ago, bothered to read the Paulson bail-out plan–a whole 849 words long.
• Whatever » John McCain, Candidate for President of WTFistan
  - McCain is the Sir Robin of the 2008 presidential election.
• Country First — In These Times
  - …the Republican convention reminds us of what Barry Goldwater suggested 44 years ago: Terrorists are not the only ones who believe extremism is ?no vice.? And, as the old aphorism warns, when the most virulent extremism attacks our country, it won?t be shrouded in Islamic fatwas - it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
• Foreign Policy In Focus | Biden, Iraq, and Obama’s Betrayal
  - This is change? Biden is one the leading congressional supporters of U.S. militarization of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of strict economic sanctions against Cuba, of Israeli occupation policies…and was a big cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq.