Sunday Linkblast - August 12

• Calgary is Canada's top city?
  With sky-rocketing rents and homeless population and an infrastructure for about a quarter of it's population - try living here. There's a reason for the crowds of moving vans headed out of the city.
  
  
• Walmart hits a wall
  Has the retail giant's business model hit it's ceiling?
  
  
• The Weekly American Editorial cartoons
  From Bob Geiger
  
  
• Democrats quietly dreading a Hillary win?
  She's at the top of the primary polls but with oval office victory seemingly their's for the taking, Democrats begin to have second thoughts.
  
  
• American troops in Iraq exhausted and demoralized
  While in the White House...
  
  
• Bush's War Czar floats draft balloon
  Can an empire be maintained with an all volunteer force?
  
  
• Warren Ellis on Philip K. Dick
  " Like many middle-aged American science fiction writers, he needed more spaceships in his life."
  
  
• Career Justice Department lawyers turn on the White House
  Severe partisan abuse leads to unprecedented staff revolt.