The Washington Times: AP:
Authorities in Iraq have arrested two close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, including the chief of the terror mastermind’s Baghdad operation, the government said Friday, two days ahead of historic elections that extremists have vowed to subvert.
(via Powerline where even more progress is speculated on)
Citizen Smash has posted a letter from Condaleeza Rice to all State Department employees. It is very interesting to read.
This paragraph here has some interesting stuff in it:
In these momentous times, American diplomacy has three great tasks. We will unite the community of democracies in building an international system that is based on our […]
William Saletan, on Hillary Clinton’s abortion strategy:
Not this time. Abortion is ‘a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women,’ said Clinton. Then she went further: ‘There is no reason why government cannot do more to educate and inform and provide assistance so that the choice guaranteed under our constitution either does not ever have […]
Wired News:
President Bush on Thursday proposed increasing federal funds to promote computerized medical records, which he said would save patients’ lives and money as he touted plans to overhaul the health care industry.
On the first trip of his second term, Bush said a standardized information technology system for doctors’ offices and hospitals would help save […]
Crosblog:
The people who built, filled, and ran Auschwitz are, for the most part, dead. Pointing to their descendants and saying ‘you did this’ is counterproductive when there are people alive today trying to do it again. Point to them. Because while the previous Holocaust may not have been our fault, preventing the next one remains […]
George Will offers some biting commentary on the Larry Summers controversy:
Forgive Larry Summers. He did not know where he was.
Addressing a conference on the supposedly insufficient numbers of women in tenured positions in university science departments, he suggested that perhaps part of the explanation might be innate — genetically based — gender differences in cognition. […]
Zeyad has an interesting post up about the hopes and fears of Iraqis for the coming elections.
I suspect that the elections will be a success, despite some violence, and that this will be a great turning point. Doesn’t mean violence will immediately cease, but bit by bit the terrorists and thugs are being forced […]
CNN.com:
Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs.
The 9- and 10-year-old boys were arrested Monday and charged with making a written threat to kill or harm another person. They were also […]
Check out this glorious shots of barking moonbats in their native environment.
