This reporting by Michael Yon is certainly well worth reading in full. It is the story of the arrest of an Iraqi hero who had fallen into corruption. I imagine many will view this as a resounding success, others will point to it as evidence that our hopes in Iraq are futile and that we [...]
USATODAY.com
Politician-turned-actor Fred Thompson has been coy with audiences as he flirts with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.In an interview with USA TODAY, however, the former Tennessee senator not only makes it clear that he plans to run, he describes how he aims to do it. He’s planning an unconventional campaign using blogs, video [...]
Religious Tolerance and the Common Good, a speech delivered by Archbishop Chaput of Colorado is well worth reading in full. (via the Anchoress). I want to highlight one small part however.
Here’s my point. People who take the question of human truth, freedom and meaning seriously will never remain silent about it. They can’t. They’ll always [...]
washingtonpost.com
Mary Cheney gave birth yesterday to perhaps the most anticipated baby in contemporary U.S. politics — her first child, Samuel David Cheney, whom she will raise with her longtime partner, Heather Poe.The 8-pound 6-ounce boy is the sixth grandchild for Dick Cheney. The vice president and his wife, Lynne, both beaming, posed for a photo [...]
TIME
There is good news from Iraq, believe it or not. It comes from the most unlikely place: Anbar province, home of the Sunni insurgency. The level of violence has plummeted in recent weeks. An alliance of U.S. troops and local tribes has been very effective in moving against the al-Qaeda foreign fighters. A senior U.S. [...]
Air Car - Popular Mechanics
A pretty interesting article. One thing that it reminded me, is that we sometimes get caught up in thinking only revolutionary ‘new’ technology like fuel cells or hybrid engines can solve problems, but new applications for older proven technology is sometimes better
(see this article on adding a steam cycle to a [...]
washingtonpost.com
Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims said the use of suicide bombings [...]
washingtonpost.com (via Instapundit)
This small Baltic country, one of the most wired societies in Europe, has been subject in recent weeks to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, banks, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers and news organizations, according to Estonian and foreign officials here.
Computer security specialists here call it an [...]
washingtonpost.com
The Bush administration and a bipartisan group of senators reached agreement yesterday on a sprawling overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws that would bring an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants out of society’s shadows while stiffening border protections and cracking down on employers of undocumented workers.The delicate compromise, 380 pages long and three months in [...]
TimesOnline
Gaza was on the brink of civil war last night as violent clashes between Palestinian factions spiralled out of control.Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, threatened to declare a state of emergency today, as fierce fighting raged on the streets.
But as the death toll climbed to more than 40 in four days of the worst [...]
