Reuters.co.uk
The Iraqi government will impose a daytime curfew on Baghdad and three surrounding provinces on Friday in an effort to avert sectarian clashes on the Muslim day of prayer, government sources said on Thursday.A overnight curfew will be extended until 4 p.m. (1300 GMT) and police will arrest those who take to the streets, even […]
David Bernstein quotes from the end of his book, You Can’t Say That!, at The Volokh Conspiracy. He makes some very important points.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
To many, this sounded outrageous. But on February 10, in Oslo, came a dramatic capitulation that seemed a classic case of sharia in action. For days, Velbjørn Selbekk, editor of the tiny Christian periodical Magazinet – the first publication to reprint the now-famous Muhammed cartoons from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten – had […]
Space Antenna Design Evolved by Hive of Borg - Gizmodo
Eighty PCs running artificial intelligence software used “survival of the fittest” principles to evolve a tiny antenna that will be used on a space mission next month. NASA called the group of computers a “Borg computer collective.” After starting with a random antenna design, the hive […]
Dean’s World - America’s Friends and Allies: The United Arab Emirates
If you are still under the impression that the UAE is a ’sponser of terror’ go read this post.
The American Thinker
Vice President Dick Cheney’s unfortunate hunting accident has a silver lining for those who can see it. The resulting media embarrassment proved that the US Media in all it’s power and reach has become so moribund, so lazy, so lacking in essential vigor that they forgot to disguise their actual anger. Their braying […]
William Bennett and Alan Dershowitz editorialize in the Washington Post
When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press — an institution at the heart of those virtues […]
This Riding Sun post talks about how moderate Muslims are silenced by fear of violence.
This is why an uncompromising stance on free speech is important. It both prevents that sort of thing from happening here (and it could, and not just about Islam) and makes it clear in places where violence has already silenced the […]
Asia Times Online
Strange as it may seem, the pope must whisper when he wants to state agreement with conventional Muslim opinion, namely that the Koranic prophecy is fixed for all time such that Islam cannot reform itself. If Islam cannot change, then a likely outcome will be civilizational war, something too horrific for US leaders […]
Andrew Sullivan looks at Rudy Guiliani’s recent activities
When asked if he was running for president he said: “Only God knows. I’ll know better in a year whether I can fully commit to that process.” The pastors said they’d pray for him. Giuliani replied: “I appreciate you. I can tell you from my heart how much […]
