I have been slammed at work all week, so I haven’t had any time to devote to things unrelated to the broken Internet. Therefore I have a lot of catching up to do this weekend. But I have been deeply struck by the horrific and slightly hopeful bits of information coming out of Burma this [...]
Someone alerted me this evening to the story of Steve Bitterman, who was dismissed from teaching at Southwestern Community College in Iowa for telling his students that not to take the story of the Garden of Eden literally. Students viewing a simulcast of the class at a neighboring college complained that Bitterman had denigrated their [...]
The United States Senate, the most deliberative body in the world, this week affirmed,in a bold move, by a vote of 72 to 25 that
A recent attack through a full-page advertisement in the New York Times by the liberal activist group, Moveon.org, impugns the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the [...]
Yesterday, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell offered some enlightening and frightening testimony before the judiciary committee. McConnell testified to what a number of us have been for years:
[the] Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that the terror attacks of Sept. 11, which he invoked to justify expanding US spy powers, “could have been prevented” [...]
The Fed today decided to drop the target rate for Federal funds by 50 base points, to 4.75 percent. The board felt as though this was necessary to help stabilize investments in the mortgage and stock markets after the recent unpleasantness related to default rates and MSO devaluations. Of course, this sent the stock [...]
The Iraqi government said today that it would revoke the license of the private security firm BlackwaterUSA, due to the reckless actions of its employees. Blackwater is is best known for supplying the contractors who were killed in Fallujah — an event which sparked a major siege of the city costing thousands of lives. Lesser [...]
The worldwide lack of potable water is one of the least covered crisis facing man. Michael Pritchard, of Ipswitch UK, decided to do something about it after watching coverage of the great tsunami of 2004 and hurricane Katrina in 2005. Mr. Pritchard was shocked that people had to wait for days to receive potable drinking [...]
