Thursday Links

What better way to start your day than a piping hot toddy? (Whisky not optional) You go get yours right now Eric!

Baghdad Blast Kills 3 U.S. Troops

4 arrested in alleged NYC synagogue bomb plot

The gas-guzzling Hummer goes eco-friendly with a new model that's powered by electricity

Washington Post: Arrests on Southern Border Drop The number of arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped 27 percent this year, a decline that could put the figure at its lowest level since the early 1970s, federal officials said yesterday.

Wal-Mart makes India debut

New contraceptive blocks HIV transmission

Spidey Sense used on border

NYT: A Quiet Meeting of America’s Very Richest There are fewer billionaires in these tough economic times, so one might imagine that the remaining ones would attract more attention when they moved en masse. Yet when some of America’s most prominent capitalists met earlier this month at Rockefeller University, it took weeks before anyone noticed.