Links of the Day (week, actually) for 30 December 2007

• Is the Supreme Court going to define “well regulated militia”? by Brooks Jackson (Annenberg Political Fact Check)
• Subways: The New Urban Status Symbol by Jennifer Fishbein (BusinessWeek, 12/5/07)
• Society on Steroids: A Bill Moyers Essay (Bill Moyers Journal, 12/20/07) – cheating and cutting corners are endemic in American culture, not just Major League Baseball
• Best Urban Spaces by Dan Hill (City of Sound, 12/21/07)
• Blair’s plan to convert started in no. 10 by John Hooper and Caroline Davies (The Guardian, 12/23/07) – a former British PM becomes a Catholic
• A Spin Through Bicycle History by Gregory McNamee (Britannica Blog, 12/25/07)
• Britain has become a Catholic country by Jonathan Wynne-Jones (The Sunday Telegraph, 12/26/07) via Whispers in the Loggia – Tony Blair is not alone as Catholicism is once again the dominant religious group in Great Britain
• Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time by John Nichols (The Nation, 12/26/07) – anti-corporate ideals strike a chord
• A Colony With a Conscience by Kenneth T. Jackson (New York Times, 12/27/07) – the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, a cornerstone of religious freedom in America
• No Reason To Get Excited by John Kenneth Fisher (MetaFilter, 12/28/07) – the 40th anniversary of one of the great rock and roll songs of all time, “All Along the Watchtower”
• A Solar Grand Plan (Scientfic American, January 2008) – “A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.’s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050.” Wow!