washingtonpost.com
An Iraqi al Qaeda member accused of assassination plots against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and other attacks was transferred by the CIA to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo this week, the Pentagon said on Friday.Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was also accused of commanding al Qaeda’s paramilitary operations in Afghanistan and launching attacks on U.S. and [...]
RealClearPolitics – Articles – It’s Time for an Ideas Primary
Harold Ford makes a fairly good case for the need to look into new ideas, and offers six for Democrats, in a fairly descent op-ed peice if one ignores some gratuitous and unnecessary swipes at the Bush administration.
Here are his ideas, read the article for a [...]
The Skeptical Optimist has a great post that explains creative destruction. Well worth reading.
I haven’t mentioned this tradgedy before here, because I has nothing signifigant to add and no particularly useful observations to make. While it increased my opinion that gun control is a bad idea, and that ‘gun-free zones’ are not a useful solution, that is a fairly predictable response from me, and probably more related to [...]
TimesOnline
A Chinese political prisoner sued Yahoo! in a US federal court, accusing the internet company of helping the Chinese government torture him by providing information that led to his arrest.The suit, filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, is believed to be the first of its kind made against [...]
The Volokh Conspiracy – -
Reid said “A lot of us wish that Alito weren’t there and O’Connor were there,” indicating his desire that there has been a fifth vote to invalidate the statute, as Justice O’Connor had provided the fifth vote to invalidate Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban in Stenberg v. Carhart.What is curious about Reid’s [...]
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on “partial birth” abortion, marking a shift on the issue and underscoring the impact of President George W. Bush’s two high court appointments.The justices, voting 5-4, said the 2003 law is constitutional even though there is no exception for cases posing a risk to the [...]
washingtonpost.com
The U.N. Security Council moved swiftly to start what will likely be a months-long process to deploy the first significant U.N. peacekeeping force in conflict-wracked Darfur following the Sudanese government’s long-awaited approval.Council members immediately started the process of getting U.N. funding for the 3,000 troops, police and other personnel _ as well as six attack [...]
New York Times
Political followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, said today that their six cabinet ministers would quit their posts in government in protest at the refusal of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to set a timetable for American troops to withdraw from Iraq.At a press conference, legislators loyal to Mr. Sadr read from [...]
International Herald Tribune
United States law requires that virtually all donated food be grown in America and shipped at great expense across oceans, mostly on vessels that fly American flags and employ American crews – a process that typically takes four to six months.
For a third year, the Bush administration, which has pushed to make foreign [...]
