Josh Marshall’s new site TPMCafe is up and looks very interesting.
Se. John Edwards is guest blogging there this week, his first post is about how being poor is more expensive. I am not a huge fan of Edward’s divisive populism, but the problems he points out are very real.
Unlike the common liberal […]
The Evil Tsykoduk as tagged me. I almost didn’t do this, because it is far too long, but I decided to play along after all.
3 names I go by: Dave, David, and Justus (I have tried to get ‘Your Eminence’ to be common usage in addressing me, so far no luck)
3 physical […]
I highly recommend this post: http://www.qando.net/ - Torture: The Case Against, and Prescription for…..
Well worth of reading.
The proposed solution to the torture problem is interesting:
My preferred method of dealing with these terror prisoners would be to get two captains and a major together as a tribunal, declare them to be unlawful combatants, and put them […]
Belmont Club, read the whole thing as they say. His conclusion is especially important:
The real challenge for Europeans, especially Eastern Europeans and the British, is to articulate an alternative vision for the Continent. The European vision needs a second party in order to make up a debate.
As I have said, I think that the […]
LA Times:
Mohsen Abdel Hamid, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was detained when U.S. troops raided his home shortly before dawn. He was released after Iraqi government officials, including Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, criticized the action. Hamid has been a voice of reconciliation, urging Sunnis to work with the Shiite-dominated government and condemning a surge […]
New York Times:
President Jacques Chirac of France fired his loyal, long-suffering prime minister today, a direct response to the country’s decisive rejection of a referendum on the constitution for Europe that was as much as rejection of his 10-year presidency.
In announcing the resignation of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Elysee Palace named Interior Minister and former […]
GMAC recently commisioned a study of driver knowledge. Here are the scores:
These are the average scores on a 20-question driver’s test administered to more than 5,000 licensed drivers in a survey commissioned by the GMAC Insurance.
Nation — 82.7
1. Oregon — 89.4
2. Washington — 88.4
3. Iowa — 87.7
4. Idaho — 87.5″
If the drivers around here […]
CNN.com:
Saudi Arabia’s special forces were put on alert after King Fahd was hospitalized in Riyadh for tests Friday, the Saudi government said.
The move is routine whenever the king is hospitalized, Saudi government sources told CNN on condition of anonymity.
Members of the state-owned news media, who asked not to be identified, said they were told to […]
The discussions on my posting on the taboo test showed that I had done a poor job in the posts of explaining my moral views in totality or in an organized fashion. So this post is an attempt to do that.
First off, any discussion of morality must be confined to the realm of free […]
