Canadian Goose, originally uploaded by Rob Bluey.

My colleague Jim Weidman, who usually feeds me a dozen articles every day, has been traveling with the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour this week. Therefore, I’ve been lagging behind on the headlines. I threw in a few extra articles, as well as my own photo, for today’s installment.

• Public Gives Bush Slight Reprieve РJohn Harwood, Wall Street Journal
• General Petraeus Wins the TV War in a Rout РMargaret Carlson, Bloomberg
• Petraeus Problem РRep. Roy Blunt, National Review Online
‚Ä¢ NYT Gives Lefties a Hefty Discount for ‘Betray Us’ Ad – Charles Hurt, New York Post
• Digesting the Iraq Report РEricka Andersen, Human Events

• Taking the war on terror to Africa РScott Johnson, Newsweek
‚Ä¢ Putin’s Puzzling PM Pick – Peter Brookes, New York Post
• Senate Panel Reduces Missile Funding РDesmond Butler, Associated Press
• Ozone crisis that was exaggerated? РBen Lieberman, Korea Herald
• GOP candidates could turn up in unlikely places РMartin Wisckol, Orange County Register

• Senator Clinton panders on entitlements РJames C. Capretta, National Review Online
• $8B in pork clogs U.S. infrastructure plans РKen Dilanian, USA Today
• Inside The Hidden World Of Earmarks РBusinessWeek
• Labor-Bush wars intensify РJeanne Cummings, Politico
• How to avoid a recession РJay Ambrose, Scripps Howard News Service

• Harnessing the Internet to reinvent democracy РGeorgina Prodhan, Reuters
• The pretenders РJosh Trevino
• Can Mark Warner Be Beaten? РChris Cillizza, The Fix
• Are Our 37 Million Poor Really Poor? РBill Steigerwald, Human Events
• Lessons in school choice РEd Feulner, Indianapolis Star