Instapundit.com
I’ve used Google Documents quite a bit, and it’s not bad - if it just supported footnoting, it would be awesome. I’ve used the spreadsheet program a couple of times, too, and it seems fine. If I were a company, though, I think I’d worry about having all my important documents on someone else’s servers.
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Guardian Unlimited
Prince Harry and his regiment are to be sent to Iraq despite the security risk his deployment will pose, the government confirmed today.The defence secretary, Des Browne, outlined the posting to Iraq of Harry’s regiment, the Blues and Royals, in a written statement to the Commons.
To protect the prince’s safety, Clarence House appealed to […]
New York Times (via Instapundit)
The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy […]
The Skeptical Optimist
explains why the conventional wisdom on the debt, the belief that at some point the principle will have to be paid back, is dead wrong in a very insightful post. I’ll post his final paragraphs as a teaser to get you to read the whole thing:
Politicians and journalists who peddle fear of the […]
Pajamas Media
Since the multiple bombings in Shroja market district on the 12th, Baghdad hasn’t seen any major attacks and there’s a tangible decrease in all kinds of attacks.Not only official statements say so (Defense ministry officials said today that attacks are down by 80% in Baghdad). It’s a reality I live in nowadays, at least […]
Quest to Heal Iraqi Boy Became a Final Mission - washingtonpost.com
A sad, humbling and inspiring story. Must read.
Glenn Reynolds wrote this a couple of days age:
Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy, or an invasion, is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs’ expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians’ […]
Hot Air
GIULIANI: The ones I think have a better understanding of what their responsibility is and are willing to take a risk are the ones who are saying we’ve got to hold back the funds, we’ve got to vote against the war or we’re for the war. And maybe it’s because I ran a government […]
Reuters
A U.S. military general said on Wednesday that radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq and is in Iran, accused by Washington of inflaming sectarian tensions in its neighbour.The cleric’s aides denied earlier reports Sadr had fled to avoid a crackdown on militants aimed at halting suicide bomb attacks and death squad killings in […]
FT.com
The full text of an internal European Union document on Iran reveals that officials from the bloc are pessimistic about the chances of stopping Iran from getting enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb.The reflection paper, written by the staff of Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief, circulated to the EU’s 27 governments last week, […]
