Justus For All

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani: There is no more important international issue today than the need to defeat the curse of terrorism. And as the first democratically elected president of Iraq, I have a responsibility to ensure that the world’s youngest democracy survives the inherently difficult transition from totalitarianism to pluralism. A transformation of the Iraqi [...]

Instapundit points us at this The Rocky Mountain News article: But with crude oil above $66 a barrel at the close of trading Tuesday, oil shale is a promising alternative to crude. The Green River shale deposits in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are estimated to contain 1.5 trillion to 1.8 trillion barrels of oil, and [...]

Is there any chance Gen. Honore will run for President in 2008? Without even knowing his politics, he has my vote! Click on to Instapundit.com for a link to the transcript and video if you havn’t seen it yet.

LA Daily News: Conservative House Republicans plan to recommend today more than $500 billion in savings over 10 years to compensate for the costs of Hurricane Katrina as lawmakers continue to struggle to develop a consensus on the fiscal approach to the disaster. At the top of a partial list of the potential cuts being [...]

PC Pro: The US Authors’ Guild suing Google over copyright infringement. In a class action with the biographer of Abraham Lincoln biographer, a children’s book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States, the guild alleges that the search engine is ‘massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers’. [...]

As I explained in this post: Roberts, the ultimate rope-a-dope?, opposition to someone as highly qualified as Roberts is a foolish political strategy. FOXNews: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that he intends to oppose confirmation of John Roberts (search) as chief justice of the Supreme Court. ‘I intend to cast my vote against [...]

Dean Esmay has a interesting post up, pointing out why he doesn’t like the type of thinking displayed in this LaShawn Barber post. Read both so you will understand the basics of what I am talking about here. While the notion that God protects a righteous people is frequent throughout the Bible, it is a [...]

USATODAY: Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96. A great man. He will be missed.

CNN: NASA unveiled plans on Monday to return humans to the moon by 2018 at a cost of $104 billion. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin showcased a mission to the moon in an Apollo-style capsule sitting atop rockets fashioned from shuttle components. ‘The space program is a long-term investment in our future,’ Griffin said. The new [...]