Guardian Unlimited
While Cutler lost her job with Republican senator Mike DeWine, Mr Steinbuch moved to a teaching post in Arkansas and filed a lawsuit alleging invasion of privacy and seeking $20m (£10.1m) in damages.The case dating from the 2004 blog is expected to go to trial soon. In establishing whether people who keep online journals […]
Guardian Unlimited Environment
An ice island the size of a small city is adrift in the Arctic after breaking free from one of Canada’s largest ice shelves, scientists said today.The ice island is 37 metres (120ft) thick and measures 9 miles by 3 miles, according to the CanWest News Service. It broke clear from Ellesmere island, […]
Reuters.com
Somalia’s prime minister swept into Mogadishu in an armoured convoy on Friday a day after his Ethiopian-backed forces drove Islamist rivals from the city they had ruled by sharia law since June.
I haven’t commented on this before because I have been trying to process it all. I am happy of course to see the Islamists […]
This Washington Times op-ed (via Instapundit) proposes a different tactic for the War in Iraq:
Unlike U.S.-led coalition troops, the adversaries in this war do not carry arms openly, wear uniforms or insignias and abide by other laws and customs of wars specified in Geneva Conventions and protocols. They instill fear in military opponents and local […]
WRAL.com
Former vice presidential nominee John Edwards declared his candidacy Thursday for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, saying the United States needs a new spirit of activism and leadership for an unstable, chaotic world.Clad in blue jeans, an open-necked shirt and with his sleeves rolled up, Edwards chose the backyard of a victim of Hurricane Katrina […]
International Herald Tribune
It’s been called the most dramatic shift in U.S. military power since World War II. But it’s not the widely anticipated drawdown of American combat forces in Iraq.While debate rages over the future of America’s military role in Iraq, another massive U.S. military reorganization — largely overlooked but perhaps even more significant over […]
Pajamas Media has a round-up of reactions.
I only vaguely remember the Ford presidency, and certainly at the time I was not at all interested in politics, so Ford is a President I only know from history. My impressions are that he was a good man, at a time the country desperately needed a good man […]
Yahoo! News
Iraq’s highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail.
The sentence “must be implemented within 30 days,” chief judge Aref Shahin said. “From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation.”On […]
Reuters.com
Up to 500 people were burned alive on Tuesday when fuel from a vandalized pipeline exploded in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said.Hundreds of residents of the Abule Egba district went to scoop fuel using plastic containers after thieves punctured the underground pipeline overnight to siphon fuel into a road tanker, locals said.
Abiodun Orebiyi, […]
