Forbes.com: :
Offers of help have been pouring in for a Michigan man who is trying to persuade online giant Yahoo! to allow him access to the e-mail account of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq.
From lawyers to computer-code crackers, people across the nation have come forward wanting to help the family of 20-year-old […]
Random Gemini Weirdness has a post up about Apple iPods.
I disagree with her about all of us wanting an iPod for Christmas though. I prefer to get my music via wireless technology. I do have my eye on this version though.
Crosblog has a good post with some very relevant links on the Israeli settlement issue.
I stand by my opinion that Israel should stop building settlements in the occupied territories and do their best to accomodate the removal of existing settlements. This has less in my mind to do with the right, or lack thereof, […]
MSNBC:
An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two U.S. rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
It said something — or someone — had regularly cleaned layers of dust from the solar panels of the Mars Opportunity vehicle while it was […]
Dennis Prager writes about Hanukkah at the White House:
Only in America does a president light a menorah while a Jewish choral group sings Hebrew songs and the Marine band plays American songs. Only in America do Jews feel so honored as Jews and yet so completely part of the larger culture, fully Jewish and fully […]
Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Iraq and gave a press conference with Iyad Allawi. Read the whole thing. Here is a teaser from his initial statement:
I’ve just visited members of the electoral commission and met some of their staff, and I said to them that I thought that they were the […]
An interesting round-up of various responses to the democratic protests in the Ukraine in the Washington Post:
But in this highly charged atmosphere, Yanukovych’s accusations of U.S. meddling in Ukraine politics, echoed by Putin and the local press, are especially provocative. One Ukrainian weekly, ‘2000,’ alleged that Yushchenko’s ‘orange revolution’ campaign was coordinated from […]
Arthur Chrenkoff has more Good news from Iraq in the Wall Street Journal. This poll on elections seems especially encouraging:
What will you base your vote on?
Political agenda - 65%
Factional origin - 14%
Party Affiliation - 4%
National Background - 12%
Other reasons - 5%
Do you support dialog with the deposed Baathists?
Yes - 15%
No - 84%
Do not know […]
Freedom House:
Political rights and civil liberties have become so restricted in Russia that the country has been downgraded to ‘Not Free,’ Freedom House announced in a major survey of global freedom released today.The global survey, ‘Freedom in the World,’ shows that Russia was the only country to register a negative category change in 2004, moving […]
