Tonight was of course the State of the Union address (transcript here.)
Overall, I thought that the speech was pretty good, one of Bush’s better deliveries. It didn’t have a whole lot that was really interesting but there were a few key points.
Bush was very strong on Iraq, and in his defense of the wiretapping. On [...]
Yahoo! News
A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Case closed.
(hat tip: Gib)
Reuters
Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark on Tuesday for allowing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to be published, and Arab ministers called on the Copenhagen government to punish the newspaper that printed them.Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted “War on Denmark, Death to Denmark” and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north [...]
Khalid Mish’al is head of the political bureau of Hamas writes in the Guardian:
Our message to the US and EU governments is this: your attempt to force us to give up our principles or our struggle is in vain. Our people who gave thousands of martyrs, the millions of refugees who have waited for nearly [...]
The Peekaboo Paradox
This is a great article, well worth reading. It isn’t heavy or political but I am sure you will enjoy it.
(via Lileks)
You are Superman
Superman
75%
Spider-Man
65%
Green Lantern
60%
Catwoman
60%
Supergirl
58%
Wonder Woman
53%
Hulk
50%
Batman
45%
Robin
42%
Iron Man
35%
The Flash
30%
You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.
Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…
(via Crosblog)
CNN
The Senate confirmed Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court on Tuesday by a vote of 58-42, a day after an attempt by some Democratic senators to block his nomination fizzled.
Hardly surprising. I think Alito will be a pretty good judge. Less reliable than many conservatives believe he will be to their ’causes’ and much [...]
Reuters.co.uk
Iran threatened on Tuesday to halt snap U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and resume uranium enrichment if it was reported to the U.N. Security Council as agreed by the council’s five permanent members.In an angry response to the move by Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, Iran also warned it would hit [...]
Washington Post
The debate on Iran is drifting toward the ugly question that the Bush administration would most like to avoid. That is: Is it preferable for the United States to live with the consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran, or with those of a unilateral American military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities?President Bush has never answered [...]
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