Victory at The Dead Parrot Society (bonus points for a Monty Python reference in your blog title) has posted a good critique of the Kevin Drum analysis on Social Security I blogged on a couple of days ago. Here are a couple of his criticisms, but I suggest you read the whole thing:
Drum conveniently […]
Bernama.com:
The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday’s tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas could still not be reached for search and rescue operations, Indonesia’s Ambassador to Malaysia Drs H. Rusdihardjo said Thursday.
He said the estimate was based on air surveillance by Indonesian authorities who found no signs of […]
In my last post on social security Honest Partisan entered a post by Matthew Yglesias. I believe that the relevant part which he was referring to is this:
What I really don’t know how you do in a sound-bite, but which is also important, is something that gets to the difference between social insurance and […]
The New York Times > Opinion > Warren Christopher has penned on Op-Ed discussing how the U.S. can help toward Israeli-Palestinian peace. This suggestion is interesting:
The second, preferable, option would be the appointment by the president of a high-ranking United States emissary to the Middle East. Ms. Rice’s famous closeness to the President should […]
Peggy Noonan’s column is, as always, well worth reading. This bit is especially touching to me:
Of all the things I’ve heard said of the great horror, nothing seemed to me to sum it up as well as a woman chatting with a man as he cut her hair in New York. The TV was […]
Scotsman.com:
United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.
The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.
Certainly I hope our President isn’t trying to undermine the U.N. […]
Radley Balko has a column up about some very positive trends in the world. Things are getting better and that is something to be thankful for.
(via Instapundit)
Yahoo! News:
Authorities are investigating a mysterious laser beam that was directed into the cockpit of a commercial jet traveling at more than 8,500 feet.
The beam appeared Monday when the plane was about 15 miles from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the FBI (news - web sites) said.
‘It was in there for several seconds like (the plane) […]
