Sgt Hook has a letter up from a soldier in Iraq. Well worth reading. Excerpt: My fellow Americans, I have a task for those with the courage and fortitude to take it. I have a message that needs not fall on deaf ears. A vision the blind need to see. I am not a political [...]
I humbly present Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Dancers (via Ghost of a flea)
Dr. Helen (the Instawife) has an interesting post up on a new book that points to a study that showed ADHD might be related to a lack of a positive father figure. ADHD of course, like many psycological problems, is probably a catchall phrase for a number of syndromes that may in fact be unrelated [...]
Greg at Generic Confusion has a good post up on the Theory of Insurance. I agree with him that this is a topic that is poorly understood, especially as it relates to health insurance.
Reuters.com: Iran turned over to U.N. inspectors instructions for assembling a key part of an atomic weapon, a diplomat familiar with a confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday. The diplomat described it to Reuters as a ‘cookbook’ for making the enriched uranium metal core of an atomic weapon. ‘Also [...]
FrontPage magazine.com has an informative interview with Bill Tierney, a former UNSCOM weapons inspector. Well worth reading. (via Powerline)
The creator of Dilbert offers his take on the ID debate which is pretty much exactly how I feel about the whole thing. First of all, you’d be hard pressed to find a useful debate about Darwinism and Intelligent Design, of the sort that you could use to form your own opinion. I can’t find [...]
ABC News: Back in the 1950s, Hot Springs, N.M., was renamed Truth or Consequences, N.M., after a popular quiz show. During the dot-com boom of 2000, Halfway, Ore., agreed to become Half.com for a year. This week, Clark, Texas, morphed into DISH in exchange for a decade of free satellite television from the DISH Network [...]
Aljazeera.Net: ‘I don’t accept for any officer to even slap a prisoner,’ Interior Minister Bayan Baqir Solagh Jabir told a packed news conference on Thursday, his first public appearance since US forces found the bunker and scores of malnourished and badly beaten men on Sunday. ‘The talk about this has been inaccurate,’ he said, adding [...]
The Jawa Report has an interesting post up with an email from an unnamed Marine about weapons in Iraq, and also a strategic and tactical look at the situation there.
