Roger Kimball has an interesting essay up: Roger’s Rules: The limits of “openness” (via Instapundit)
It is well worth reading.
To me, an open mind means being willing to accept new evidence, to look for things that would make you change your opinions and judgements. It is, I think, an unequivocally good thing.
That isn’t though what a [...]
CNN.com
The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight, the U.S. Navy reported Tuesday.
art.williams.navy.jpgThe USS James E. Williams ordered pirates to give up their weapons, the Navy says.
When the battle aboard the Dai Hong Dan was over, [...]
John Fund writes in the OpinionJournal
Al Franken, the liberal former Air America host who is now running for the Senate in Minnesota, is already slipping into the role of potential legislative censor of his old industry. “You shouldn’t be able to lie on the air,” he told Newsweek’s Mr. Fineman earlier this year. “You can’t [...]
washingtonpost.com
Soldiers battled separatist Kurdish rebels across southeast Turkey, trapping about 100 in caves near the Iraqi border after blocking escape routes across the frontier, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Monday.The guerrillas denied the report.
President Abdullah Gul pledged to remain resolute in the fight against the rebels, addressing the nation as massive military parades across the [...]
Reuters
New satellite pictures show Syria has razed the site of what might have been a secret nuclear reactor under construction apparently bombed by Israel last month, an atomic research institute says.Syria has denied illicitly hiding a nuclear site from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and said the only facility in [...]
Michael Yon : Online Magazine
Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of Baghdad. He might well be seriously injured or killed here, [...]
International Herald Tribune
The death toll rose to 134 killed and 450 wounded Friday following explosions just feet from a truck carrying the returning opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday night, in what regional authorities and Bhutto said was a suicide attack by Islamist militants.Bhutto had retreated inside the armored truck a few minutes before the [...]
The American Spectator has a good synopsis of the Randi Rhodes ‘mugging’. I didn’t hear about this until after it had already been debunked, but the story is fascinating.
I think that this quote from C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity sums up the whole thing very well:
Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. [...]
Houston Chronicle
The Democratic eavesdropping bill would have allowed unfettered telephone and e-mail surveillance of foreign intelligence targets but would require special authorization if the foreign targets were likely to be in contact with people inside the United States, a provision designed to safeguard Americans’ privacy.Those so-called “blanket warrants” would let the government obtain a single [...]
New York Times
Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution backed by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.Almost a dozen lawmakers had shifted against the measure in a 24-hour period ending Tuesday night, [...]
