If you don’t read Belmont Club everyday you are missing out on some of the most insightful commentary on the War on Terror availible on the net. Today’s post by Wretchard is no exception:
While Midway is enshrined in popular glory, it was really Guadalcanal that represented the graveyard of Japanese forces, the Island […]
Washington Post:
People who live in sprawling communities tend to suffer more health problems, according to the first study to document a link between the world of strip malls, cul-de-sacs and subdivisions and a broad array of ailments.
The study, which analyzed data on more than 8,600 Americans in 38 metropolitan areas — including the Washington […]
Eugene Volokh was guest blogging last week on GlennReynolds.com. His last post, on Friday, discussed the House bill limiting the courts ability to limit the jurisdiction of the Federal and Supreme courts on this issue. He provided an interesting commentary on why this isn’t a good idea for those who want to keep […]
Orin Kerr has posted three questions for pro-war bloggers at the Volokh Conspiracy site. They are good questions, and deserve answers, so here is my best shot.
First, assuming that you were in favor of the invasion of Iraq at the time of the invasion, do you believe today that the invasion of Iraq was […]
The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network:
Seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed significantly during the past 24 hours and the changes make us believe that there is an increased likelihood of a hazardous event, which warrants release of this Notice of Volcanic Unrest. The swarm of very small, shallow earthquakes (less than Magnitude 1) that […]
Dean’s World is hosting the Carnival of the Liberated stop by and check out the great Iraqi blogs.
New York Times:
The resolution passed, and it was a good day for alliance-nurturing and burden-sharing - for the burden of doing nothing was shared equally by all. And we are by now used to the pattern. Every time there is an ongoing atrocity, we watch the world community go through the same series of stages: […]
This article is pretty interesting to me.
Low-income residents of the New York City borough of Queens are taking active roles in their healthcare by carrying their personal health records on chip-embedded “smart cards,” public hospital officials have reported.
A few years ago I helped some guys develop a prototype of a similar system in […]
This Peter Bergen Op-Ed is well worth reading. Democracy is coming to Afghanistan, in fact it is coming much faster than I expected. I figured it would be at least 5 years, possibly as long as a decade before Afghanistan could become any sort of positive force for the region.
