The New York Times:
Opposition parties gained ground on Tuesday in their struggle to push aside the country’s pro-Syrian government, with both the prime minister and the chief of the country’s powerful military intelligence agency signaling their intention to quit.
Prime Minister Omar Karami, who resigned last month and had spent the intervening weeks trying to form […]
Immigration is becoming a big issue.
Michelle Malkin has started The Immigration Blog, which is focused on this issue. I addition the Minuteman Project is drawing a lot of attention to the issue as well.
So I thought it would be interesting to state my thoughts on immigration.
First off, I do believe it is important […]
Xinhua - English:
The upper house of Kyrgyzstan’s previous parliament agreed on Tuesday to cede power to the new parliament elected in February’s disputed polls, ending a cut-throat battle for legitimacy between the two legislatures.
Lawmakers of the previous upper house agreed to suspend work, one day after a similar move by the […]
I have mentioned in the comments in a few sites the split between small government Conservatives/libertarians and the religious right which are the primary factions that make up the Republican Party.
Historically, when the Democrats held most of the reigns of Federal Power, the two factions were very amicable. The religious right and the small […]
CNN:
Officials in Thailand and Sri Lanka report that residents are evacuating coastal regions in the Indian Ocean after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 8.2 struck off the coast of Indonesia Monday.
In Thailand, thousands of people in the six provinces affected by the December 26 tsunami were moving to higher ground or […]
Ultimate Gamer!!
GM says drop 2d10, aanndd… you roll 91% !
What, are you a first generation gamer? Did you own the brown box?!
Whatever you do in your spare time, gaming seems to be your job. Either you looked up the answers or you’re the best of the best, the type that makes other […]
I have been thinking a lot about transhumanism lately, partly as a result of some of the current news stories, and partly because of some of my recent reading material.
The ethical quandaries of the future are doubtless going to make our current debates seem trivial indeed. I tend to side pretty heavily on the […]
Frank Chang-ting Hsieh, premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), writes in the Washington Post:
Tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese will take to the streets in our country to peacefully express their opposition to China’s most recent threat to the freedom of Taiwan. This month the National People’s Congress passed a so-called ‘Anti-Secession Law’ that […]
Chicago Tribune:
His new Middle East neighborhood cannot make Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad very happy. Turkey is democratic to his north. A million Arabs vote in Israel to the south.
Palestinians are near civil war to establish democratic rule–their own terrorists more a threat to the newly elected Abu Abbas than are Israeli tanks.
Iraq to the east […]
Some great photos here. The lack of hot protest babes is worrying though…
