Terrorist threat to UK - MI5 chief’s full speech - Britain - Times Online
What I can say is that today, my officers and the police are working to contend with some 200 groupings or networks, totalling over 1600 identified individuals (and there will be many we don’t know) who are actively engaged in plotting, or […]
SFGate.com
Two hours of oral argument on a federal “partial birth” abortion ban at the Supreme Court on Wednesday showed that the justices are intensely focused on the procedure’s medical details and health implications — but produced few clues as to how they might rule.
The article contains what I think is an interesting legal and constitutional […]
FOXNews.com
Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down as defense secretary and former CIA Director Robert Gates will be nominated to take his place.Rumsfeld’s resignation was the first Bush administration casualty after a midterm congressional election that sent at least 28 House Republicans packing and left the future of the Senate in limbo.
President Bush called Rumsfeld a […]
First off, big congratulations to the Democrats. A clear election victory by any standards, with a solid majority in the House and possible control of the Senate.
Why this happened and what it will mean will spawn thousands of blog posts today. I don’t know that I have any particularly earth shattering insights here, but that […]
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Not only should you vote, you should consider a career in politics.
(via Crosblog)
This New York Times article is fascinating on how paleo-climatoligists are engaged in a major debate over how much CO2 concentrations in the past have related to global climate. Obviously it has major implications for today’s issues. More than anything else, I think it underlines that our current state of knowledge regarding what drives climate […]
Here it is, the day when those evil Republicans will finally get what is coming to them, and the nobel Democrats will save America for the children, or the day when the Democrats will prove to still be out of touch with America and the great Republicans will get a mandate to save the world […]
Times Online
THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, could see a rapid spread of nuclear reactors in one of the […]
Civilization Watch - October 29, 2006 - The Only Issue This Election Day
This long essay is well worth reading. It covers why he can’t support the democrats and how he views most of the major events in the world, and why he thinks President Bush’s strategy is more or less right on all of them. […]
New York Times (via Instapundit)
Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge […]
