The Seattle Times:
The case involves a group of homeowners in New London, Conn., who are suing to prevent the city from condemning their homes in order to give the land to a real-estate developer. The developer intends to erect a private commercial spread, including luxury housing and private office space for such companies as drug [...]
SPIEGEL ONLINE:
But Bush, for all his diplomatic bumbling prior to and even since the Iraq war (and including his faux pas on Wednesday night when he neglected to take off his gloves when greeting his Slovakian hosts), is not shy about confronting Putin when he sees a problem. Furthermore, he does so publicly, making it [...]
Six figure job: Watch Dukes of Hazzard:
Location and hours flexible, pay good.
The job may seem onerous to some, however: watching ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ reruns five nights a week.
Viacom’s Country Music Television channel is running help wanted ads for this position — Vice President, CMT Dukes of Hazzard Institute. That’s right. That’s what the ads [...]
The Washington Times:
But regional analysts say Mr. Assad is most likely to be unnerved, not by foreign political pressure but by the unprecedented protest movement sparked by the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The tent city rose up near the immense crater created by the blast that killed [...]
Ann Althouse has some interesting thoughts at GlennReynolds.com about the newly famous Condi in black photo.
If you haven’t seen the photo yet, be sure to click through the link, the imagery is quite striking.
I have just finished reading the Golden Age trilogy (The Golden Age, The Phoenix Exultant, and The Golden Transcendence) by John C. Wright and I highly recommend them.
It is classic Sci-Fi in the tradition of Asimov and Heinlein. As well as having a gripping plot and interesting characters the series also has a lot [...]
Ezra Klein has a post up in which he argues that new entitlement programs would promote entrepreneurship and economic growth:
On risk, I’ve been slapping this donkey for awhile, and have only grown more convinced that it’s the right move to make. The role of the government should be to grease the market and reduce risk [...]
Victor at The Dead Parrot Society, has another very good post on Social Security reform, this time dealing with the moral reasons why we should undertake reform now.
His final thoughts:
At some point, the cycle WILL be broken. It may be 2005, 2025, 2050, or it may be 2075. But at some point, the cycle will [...]
Farid N. Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of Syria, has an interesting analysis and solution to the problems of Syria in The Washington Times:
What we are facing here is standard Syrian survival strategy of exporting trouble to be able to better retain control at home. What the Syrian regime is saying is that you [...]
