The Jaguar Spirit You scored 59% Creativity, 49% Compassion, 53% Strength, and 64% Intelligence! You are a Jaguar Spirit. You move like a predator, and enjoy the night. You are agile and graceful, and have amazing night vision. You tend to be solitary, but sometimes get along with one or two others. Jaguars are very [...]
Instapundit points us at this Weekly Standard Article: Where The Boys Aren’t At colleges across the country, 58 women will enroll as freshmen for every 42 men. And as the class of 2010 proceeds toward graduation, the male numbers will dwindle. Because more men than women drop out, the ratio after four years will be [...]
Environmental Republican has put up a couple of posts reviewing the past year in pictures. January-June July-December Good stuff.
I finally got out to see King Kong last night. Wow. It was an incredible movie with some awesome action scenes and well developed characters, especially the big guy himself. The final scene atop the empire state building is both inspiring and heart rending as Kong challenges the planes he has no hope of defeating. [...]
Barack Obama and Sam Brownback have written an op-ed in The Washington Post on the situation in Darfur. They point out, correctly, that while the situation has improved somewhat there is a lot still to be done. I am not so sure about their solutions, which are mostly using diplomacy to convince people to do [...]
I recieved Richard Miniter’s book Disinformation : 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror for Christmas. It is a is very interesting read and I highly recommend it. Although I am pretty well informed there were a couple of things in it that surprised me. For example, I was aware that the CIA [...]
Global Polio Largely Fading The 17-year effort to eradicate polio from the world appears to be back on track after nearly unraveling in the past three years.A new strategy of using a vaccine targeting the dominant strain of the virus appears to have eliminated polio from Egypt, one of six countries where it was freely [...]
Washington Post The House of Representatives agreed to extend a controversial domestic surveillance law this afternoon, but it limited the extension to a little over one month and rejected a carefully brokered compromise from the Senate that had given the law a six-month reprieve.Top Senate aides said they believed the Senate would endorse the House [...]
The Anchoress reports on a conversation with a democratic friend Excerpt: Because I remember something that maybe Alter has forgotten, that when 9/11 happened, Bush said he’d use ‘every tool’ at his disposal, and we all applauded that! Remember? We all said, THANK FREAKIN’ GOD this man is in charge, and he clearly means this! [...]
