links for 2007-11-21

• Dollar Will Weather the Whines, Jeers and Jokes - John M. Berry
• Origins of the Southern Strategy - Matthew Yglesias
• Giant fossil sea scorpion bigger than man - EurekAlert
• How Dangerous Is America? - Spiegel
• 'Crunch' Time For the GOP - Robert J. Samuelson
• Fed’s New Forecasts: What’s Surprising and What Isn’t - WSJ Econ Blog
• Dovish Fed vs. Hawkish Fed: More on the FOMC Minutes - WSJ Econ Blog
• Who will pick up the thread after the great unwinding? - Martin Wolf
• Loan Crisis Entangles Freddie Mac - New York Times