Breakfast Links: June 15, 2011

— GOP less united on wars.

— “On balance, op-ed writing is a less rewarding activity than blogging, but the promise of a big audience seemed too good to pass up.”

— The UK’s promising approach to bank regulation.

— Texas redistricting plan: “the number of seats won by each party is constant for any Democratic share of the vote between thirty-seven and forty-eight percent.”

— Integrating armed groups in the DR Congo.

— The origins of summer vacation.

— Classic blogging on summer learning loss.

— Class CAP on kids going hungry in the summertime without the federal school lunch program to feed them.

— JL Wall with a smart rejoinder to me on Chernow’s Washington.

— Before and after photos of Japan.