Here is a well thought out article in Foreign Affairs about the rise of Asia in general and China in particular. Plenty of food for thought.
Global power shifts happen rarely and are even less often peaceful. Washington must take heed: Asia is rising fast, with its growing economic power translating into political and military […]
Washington Times:
The fact that the president of Russia effectively is taking Mr. Bush’s side on the question of whether Saddam posed a threat to this country is a major news story and should be treated as such. That it is not getting this kind of coverage suggests that many journalists do not have their priorities […]
Here is an interesting post by FuturePundit about replacement kidneys being grown in rats from stem cells.
Rats with no new kidneys lived for two to three days, and rats whose new kidneys were disconnected from their bladders lived no longer. However, the rats with new kidneys connected to their bladders lived seven to eight days.
“This […]
New York Times:
President Bush has authorized a team of American negotiators to offer North Korea, in talks in Beijing on Thursday, a new but highly conditional set of incentives to give up its nuclear weapons programs the way Libya did late last year, according to senior administration officials.
So are we caving to North Korea? […]
Powerline has an interesting post on how the press is handling (ok spinning) the torture memos.
He quotes from this article and highlights this section:
“I accept the legal conclusion of the attorney general and the Department of Justice that I have the authority under the Constitution to suspend Geneva as between the United States […]
Washington Times:
The Army’s powerful 1st Armored Division is proclaiming victory over Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr’s marauding militia that just a month ago seemed on the verge of conquering southern Iraq.
The Germany-based division defeated the militia with a mix of American firepower and money paid to informants. Officers today say “Operation Iron Saber” […]
Arthur Chrenkoff has another post on good news from Iraq.
Take a moment and read it.
Glenn Reynolds has a TCS column of an interview with Aubrey de Grey, one of the leading researchers on anti-aging.
Interesting stuff. I am confident that technology will conquer the effects of aging and probably sooner than most people think is possible. This will doubtless cause serious socio-political turmoil. It will still […]
Read this post of the perspective of an Israeli on international terror.
One excerpt:
The problem is that the civilized world is still having illusions about the rule of law in a totally lawless environment. It is trying to play ice hockey by sending a ballerina ice-skater into the rink or to knock out a heavyweight boxer […]
Wretchard at Belmot Club posts about the hatred that many liberals feel toward George Bush and its underlying causes. Interesting.
I think that he is right that a lot of the anger toward President Bush is rooted in the fear that he has stolen the future from the liberal agenda, especially that of it’s more […]
