Justus For All

The bloggers of Iraq the Model have formed their own political party. Go read the post.
I don’t know how anyone can read the Iraqi blogs and not have faith that Iraq will emerge as a strong, democratic nation.

Check out these photos from Fallujah.
(via Powerline)

Glenn Reynolds has put up this good list of charities designed to support the troops. I have contributed to a couple of these organizations in the past and plan to do a bit more this holiday season. If you are so inclined, this is a good starting place.
Another charity I strongly reccommend is […]

Wretchard at Belmont Club has a long post on UN corruption, ranging from sexual predations to the Oil-for-Food scandal. Well worth reading.
Toward the end of his post he quotes Edward Mortimer, Kofi Annan’s Director for Communications, in the Washington Post who, in an attempt to defend the UN’s own internal investigations says:
Also, Mr. Annan […]

The Australian:
THE Ukrainian Government’s control over nationwide television was broken today, a key factor in maintaining support for Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, when a station began covering opposition demonstrations that have gripped the capital.
The pro-government private channel 1+1 said in a statement yesterday that it decided to begin providing “objective information” after having halted news […]

I just want to take a minute to thank all of my readers, especially those who take the time to comment on what I have written. It is always a joy to get feedback.
I’ve been doing this blog thing for about half a year now. Obviously I am not a big […]

Bradbury is one of my longtime favorite authors. Yesterday he did an interview with Neil Cavuto.
“We’re the alien life,” Bradbury, now 84, told FOX News. “Mars is empty. It’s only waiting for us — it’s a threshold for future generations. The future is vast, and we will become the Martians.”
Bradbury thinks the dwindling interest […]

CNN:
Republican Dino Rossi came out ahead of Democrat Christine Gregoire by just 42 votes Wednesday in the recount for Washington state governor, and the Democrats are expected to demand yet another recount.
The contest was the United States’ last undecided race for governor.
The machine recount of 2.8 million ballots left Rossi just 42 votes ahead of […]

CNN:
A mother who left her 7-year-old son locked in the trunk of a car while she partied in a bar has pleaded guilty to child abuse and false imprisonment.
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Powell was arrested during her birthday celebration on August 23 at a bar in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood. A witness had alerted police that the boy […]

Janan Ganesh writes in the Time Online:
THE MOTTO of the US Marine Corps is Semper Fidelis, or “always faithful”. And faith is exactly what the Western media eschew in their relentlessly cynical coverage of the American Armed Forces, which plunged to a new nadir last week with the outrage at a Marine who shot dead […]