Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays to everyone.
Strategy Page
These guys are not just “Taliban spies,” but Pakistani intelligence professionals that believe in Islamic radicalism.
The article gives a pretty good overview of how these factions relate to each other and how the history behind them.
washingtonpost.com
The agreement, which is set for a vote in the House today, calls for the government to speed $15 billion in emergency loans to the car companies as soon as next week, and for President Bush to immediately name a car czar to oversee the bailout. The companies would be required by March 31 to […]
CNN.com
“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement. “They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly […]
I haven’t blogged on this previously, since I was away from the computer when the actual events happened and since have simply been trying to make sense of what it means, both from direct geo-political consequences and as perhaps a signal for what we can expect in the future.
This article, from Asia Times Online does […]