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Kofi Annan and Rwanda

Cliff Kincaid: Major General Romeo Dallaire, the commander of several thousand U.N. troops in Rwanda, sent a fax to Kofi...

Stage-Managed Terrorism

The Obsidian Order presents fascinating photographic evidence, collected from several different news sources, that photojournalists from API, Reuters, etc. work...

What's REALLY Wrong With Objectivism

Chris Wolf: Many Objectivists acknowledge that Man is fallible on the conceptual level, but then seem to promptly forget this...

Guantanamo Bay Torture, Direct From Hell

Heather O'Donnell: Ten or so interrogators would gather and sing the Rolling Stones’ “Time Is on My Side” outside [would-be...

UN: Making the World Worse

Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold: For President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the UN was supposed to be instrumental in "nipping aggression...

NY Times: No Anti-Americanism Here

Mona Charen: The [New York] Times does not tell readers that the United States is the world's largest food aid...

Be On The Alert...

For thieves with a huge stomach ache: A Seattle patrol officer discovered a 30-foot Dreyer's Ice Cream truck in South...

Yes, That's the Point, Isn't It?

Helen: The structure of the European Constitution, its size, detailed instructions and necessary vagueness about details is essential to the...

Entrance/Exit Ticket

Andy: "My own flirtation with liberal Christianity began out of a desire for a faith with honesty and intellectual depth....

'Tis the Season...

La Shawn: Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist and convicted felon....

Unintended Consequences

James Bartholomew via John Ray: State education began in 1870 with the Forster Act, which allowed the creation of government...

Metaphysical QC

John Ray: "I am myself an atheist but I am always pleased to deal with Christians. I think that having...

Sleep, Obesity Linked

Worried about losing weight? Get enough sleep: We found that people who slept for shorter durations have reduced leptin and...

Barring Black Lawyers

Jacob Hornberger: By limiting the supply of attorneys through a rigorous and expensive system involving getting into and attending law...

People Don't Kill People...

Pencil Sharpeners Do! Belmont Club: Pencil sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil dismantled one and...

Political Motivations

Derek Draper: Although politics does not necessarily provide excitement or power, it does provide a ready-made identity, one where your...

Democrats Gain in Washington Recount

AP: More than 700 previously uncounted ballots were added in [Democratic-leaning] King County after election workers, under the close watch...

Stupid Lexus Commercials

Eric Berlin: The inverse of the Visa commercial is the annual barrage of Lexus commercials, in which a husband or...

Conservatives are Classical Liberals

Katie Grant, concerning British Prime Minister William Gladstone: Gladstonian liberalism... was a political creed dedicated to limiting taxation, promoting trade...

Go Away, Comeback Kid?

Weekly Standard: Every candidate that Clinton endorsed, raised money for, or conducted a campaign appearance on behalf of, lost. Toss...

Arafat's Condition

This guess -- ultimately, that Arafact has Hep C -- gave me a laugh: It should go without saying that...

Bunnie Diehl Sums It Up

... for me: I don't even believe that the morality issue is what cost Kerry this election. But I love...

The Obscure Religious Left

Rest Across the River: No one notices the religious left in American politics because it's primarily a political movement, and...

A Bad Economy? Depends Who's In Charge!

MRC sums up what I've been saying, offine for a long time: Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When...

Last Stand of Deerzilla

Science Daily: Giant deer first appeared about 400,000 years and roamed much of the Eurasian continent alongside the woolly mammoth....

Two Legs Good, Four Legs Bad in Congress

Bruce Bartlett: An Oct. 3 report in the Boston Globe recounts many of the ways in which the old Imperial...

Afghani Elections

From Kabul: Ahead of the poll, security had been the overriding worry for election organizers fearing attacks by Islamic fundamentalist...

History of Unabom

Via Dr. John Ray's "Of Interest" blog: Chase's take on the Unabomber is that he is the social product of...

Kerry's Incandescence

Mark Steyn: How many John Kerrys does it take to change a lightbulb? At least four. One to approve the...

Kerry as CinC

Astonished Head: Whether the Kerry campaign had anything to do with the documents or not, their near-total incompetence in handling...

Cheaper Celestial Views

Science Daily: A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to...

EU Gears for Spacewar?

EU Referendum: This really will not do. Quietly, the EU is embarking on an ambitious military space programme, allocating massive...

Noam and the Descent of the Left

Diary of an Anti-Chomskyite: As an ex-Leftist who grew up in a very Leftwing family of Jewish Bostonians, I can...

P.J. O'Rourke on Free Will

Courtesy of Right Wing News: One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the...

Quixtar Survivor Speaks

AmwayMan: I was in Amway/Quixtar for 9 years. Worked the biz 30 to 40 hours a week and was as...

Britt World Wide Investigated

Quixtar Blog reports an investigation opening on Britt World Wide, one of the major companies which promotes Quixtar products.

Selfless Muslim Act

The Washington Post: When a group of Muslims from other North Ossetian villages decided to offer themselves as hostages in...

A Left/Right Dialog? Amazing!

This is very cool. The sign says: Young liberal idealist looking for conservative or Republican person to discuss hopes and...

"Cognitive Dissonance"

Dale Franks: This is paranoia. There's simply no other word for it. I mean, sure, it's an amusing kind of...

Sol Stern on Bush and School Choice

In City Journal: The Census Bureau has just released figures showing that the D.C. public school district spends a mind-boggling...

Carville: Shout, Shout, Let it All Out!

When it comes to the truth, his own allegations aside, it seems Mr. Carville "can't handle the truth." We've heard...

Poor Barry Sanders

Brian Carnell: Some NFL teams have a knack for taking second-rates back and turning them into stars and their teams...

Lileks on the Importance of Kerry's Tales

Quoth Lileks: If Kerry’s story is a lie, it’s significant, but not because we have a gotcha moment – gee,...

Thomas Jefferson on Liberty's Foundation

Thomas Jefferson: God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...

Canada: Fox Bad, Al-Jazeera Good

WSJ: When it comes to Canadian identity, Fox News Channel is apparently a threat. Al-Jazeera, on the other hand, is...

Clinton Inhabits 'Alternate Universe'

The Washington Post: The matters leading to impeachment aren't the only ones where Mr. Clinton veers from the nonfiction category....

Learning, Not Listening to Music Increases Kids' IQ

Science News: Researchers have debunked the much-publicized idea, known as the Mozart effect, that listening to classical music improves children's...

Pacifism and Leftism: Some Things Don't Change

Hitchens, quoting George Orwell from 1945: The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians...

Terrorists and Press Biasspeak

Power Line: We have nothing useful to say about the murder of Paul Johnson. One small point, maybe: it pisses...

A Kerry / McCain Ticket?

Hindrocket: The fact that the Democrats were desperate to snag as a Vice-Presidential candidate a pro-life Republican who vigorously supports...

Oral Lee: A Remarkable Act of Generosity

World Mag Blog: Those of you who aren't AOL subscribers may have missed a very cool story about an Oakland...

Muqtada al Sadr Backs Down

US News & World Report: Publicly furious with the occupation, the citizens are also privately blaming Sadr for bringing the...

Is your dog laughing at you?

Science News: Amid all the panting, a dog at play makes a distinctive, breathy exhalation that can trigger playfulness in...

What is UP in North Korea?

Numerous fires rage in North Korea. Now what's going on there?

A Thought on Minimizing Recidivism

"Breaking into Prison": Nothing helps reduce the number of ex-convicts who return to prison, he says, like participating in religious...

On the American Iraqi Atrocities

Citizen Smash: Our soldiers sometimes do horrible things. Disgusting things. Cruel things. When they do, we must not hide from...

Sony Develops Paper DVD

Yahoo!: Electronics giant Sony and another Japanese company have developed a "paper disc" that can record more than two hours...

Jamie Gorelick: Conflict of Interest

The National Debate: ... is it not a tremendous conflict of interest to have Jamie Gorelick, the Asssitant Attorney General...

French Voters "Punishing" Chirac?

Quoth Deacon at Powerline: Chirac's party was hammered in regional elections at the end of March. As the Washington Post's...

One in Ten Brits Think Hitler Never Existed

Okay, I've now heard enough from Europeans about the purported level of ignorance among Americans... at least we're not confused as to whether Abe Lincoln was fictional. I hope.

New Anti-Anti-Spam Technique

From the BBC: Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten. With a...

UK's Blunkett: Make the Innocent Pay!

The Sunday Herald: WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life...

Al Franken on Believing in God

At one [Al-Anon] meeting, we had to share something about a higher power. And I said that as a Jew,...

Gotta Love those "Enlightened" European Morals

Ananova: A group of Swedish teachers are in trouble after they were filmed by pupils going off with prostitutes while...

European Slaves in Africa

The Guardian: North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series...

Random Quips

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.- Scott Adams, Creator...

France Negotiates with Terrorists, Censors Media

Reuters: A shadowy group is threatening to blow up sections of track in France's SNCF state railway network if it...

G.K. Chesterton on Environmentalism

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother....

The 1000 Fighting Styles of Donald Rumsfeld

Worried about facing a hostile press corps, armed with nothing more than a stack of Pentagon briefings? You might want...

IBM Deliberately Sells Defective Hard Drives

Slashdot: IBM was well-aware that its click-of-death 75GXP hard drives had a failure rate of as much as 10 times...

Astronomers Discover 'Diamond Star'

Twinkle, twinkle little star,DeBeers craves you from afar... BBC News: The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000...

P.J. O'Rourke on Government and the Press

P.J. O'Rourke: You say we (reporters) are distracting from the business of government. Well I hope so. Distracting a politician...

Taxes to George III Too High?

How things have changed: In 1776, our country fought a revolution to gain its freedom from what was considered an...

Frederick Bastiat on Socialism, 1850

Some things don't change, do they? Frederick Bastiat, in The Law, written in 1850AD: "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from...

Oil: Not From Dinosaurs?

Astrophysicist Thomas Gold on the deep, hot biosphere: The astronomers have been able to find that hydrocarbons, as oil, gas...

Tax Cuts Increase Gov't Revenues ... Again!

World on the Web, quoting Jerry Bowyer: Laffer was right; when rates go down, receipts go up. The evidence for...

Ben Stein, Hollywood Republican

Ben Stein: I would not be a Republican if I didn't think there was something noble about being in it....

Juggling Increases Gray Matter

Sadly, the effect appears only to be temporary. Dr. Vanessa Strumling, a senior lecturer in medical imaging at the University...

EU, Software Patents Threaten Linux

Bruce Perens: ...representatives to the European Parliament are pushing very hard for software patenting that would indeed shut out all...

We're All Big Spenders Now

Fed up with George W. Bush's overspending? According to the National Taxpayer's Union Foundation, he's the best of a bad lot.

Principle? It's not my "pal"!

Analysing Leftism: The Left have always wanted more spent on welfare and made "Fascism" a swear-word. President Bush deposed a...

"France is still a communist country"

Sabine Herald: In France right now there's actually a political debate about whether civil servants should be paid depending on...

Pretty Women Make Men Stupid

Who knew? New Scientist reports Pretty Women Scramble Mens' Ability to Assess the Future, in which researchers show that after...

Kennedy Overkill

Please. Please. No more JFK. Can't... get... away... from... it. Please. How about a nice program on the history of...

Firefighters are Heros! (Right?)

A recent Slate article argues that may not be the case! After reading it, it looks like I've found the...

Hate the Rich? Cut Their Taxes!

J.P. Carter at the Evangelical Outpost provides evidence here and here that we can increase taxes collected from wealthy citizens...

The Glories of Pixar

We had a Pixar marathon at Jasperwood this weekend, and I am once again astonished at the artistry that studio...

Name That Group

Vinnie uncovers an allegedly "non-profit" organization with 500 members, who has 71 who can't pass a basic credit check, 84...

You Know It's Not Funny When...

BBC is running a promo for "The Office." In it, they have people explaining exactly why the show is supposed...

Who is worse: US or China? Australia: The U.S.!

Who is a greater threat to the world today, the US or China? Apparently in Australia, the answer is the...

Packers: 35, Seahawks: 13

I love football. In what other sport does a team owned by a small-town Veterans for Foreign Wars post have...

Dirty Tricks Thursday: More Election Bias as the L.A. Times

Jill Stewart comments on the L.A. Time's bias: They sent two teams to investigate old charges Ahnold had groped women,...

Ossuary a Fake?

Ben Witherington argues persuasively at ChristianityToday that there's a lot more to the IAA's actions than meets the eye....

Rear-Wheel Drive Stability?

Hmmm... perhaps a recent article in Slate suggests my rear-wheel drive Pontiac Firebird isn't so bad after all -- in...

Gerald Ford on Government

"Government big enough to give you everything you want is government big enough to take everything you have."...

The "Gospel for Blokes and Sheilas"

The bible in Aussie? "There were some drovers camped out in a paddock nearby, keeping an eye on their mob...

Slavery in Brazil!

I was unaware of it: So far this year inspectors have freed more than 2,000 workers from forced labour, mostly...

Our Socialist Urge

It's all about envy, isn't it? In one striking example, students at Harvard University were asked whether they would prefer...

US Withdraws from Saudi Arabia

Houston Chronicle: The Pentagon has withdrawn most of its forces from the strategic Mideast nation of Saudi Arabia, ending a...

Dane: No Pizza pour vous!

A Dane was just sentenced to 8 days in jail for discrimination: Seems he won't serve pizza to French and...

RIAA Wrong, Water is Wet, Sun Will Rise

2000: Napster is popular, music industry has record sales, yet claims it's destroying it's profit margins. 2002: P2P file sharing...

Germany: We WILL Negotiate With Terrorists

Germany apparently pays out in order to set Mali hostages free: [T]hough Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said on Monday it...

No Longer 'Extinct'?

I visited Tasmania several years ago, and heard about the 'extinction' of the Tasmanian 'tiger' -- one of the few...

On Technology

Technology doesn't eliminate stupidity. Technology just allows you to be stupid faster....

Study: Meat Boosts Brain Power

A recent study reports that creatine, a dietary supplement which occurs naturally in meats boosts brain power, at least in...

Sage Advice

T-Shirt: Buckle Up. It Makes It Harder for the Aliens to Snatch You From Your Car. Another T-shirt: Upon the...

Saddam Seen Pumping Gas?

No, not quite -- but Jewish World Review reports that life has not been boring for a Saddam Hussein lookalike!...

On Being Neat

"People whose homes are always neat live without fear for the future, so they're willing to let go of stuff....

Utopia: NYC

City Journal: No fewer than 22 council members ... have sponsored Bill 386, directing the city to consider secession from...

Confessions of an Anti-Sanctions Activist

Middle East Forum: By going beyond our declared agenda of advocacy for the Iraqi people and bringing this kind of...

West Nile in the U.K.

The BBC carries a report blaming the spread of West Nile in the U.K. on climate change. Really? A similar...

Fun with Fidel

Dialing for Dictators: After two Florida DJs successfully spoofed Hugo Chavez, they decided to go for big game, Castro himself....

Liberman: Mfume for Supreme Court!

Oh good heavens. Kweisi may have told the Democrats not to rest on their laurels, but I'm not sure that...

Chilean "Blob" Mystery Solved

The odd mass which washed up on a Chilean beach -- for those who have followed the mystery -- has...

Mfume Rebukes "Republicans as Nazis" Smear

Kweisi Mfume actually upbraided NAACP's chairman for saying all Republicans were Nazis! Apparently Kweisi is getting smart and learning to...

PETA on Sausage Violence

You've all heard about the now-famous Milwaukee sausage dust-up? Boots and Sabers republishes a letter from PETA: Violence like this...

Just Plain Ol' Hill

Writes P.J. O'Rourke: Compared with Hillary Clinton, Bill is a big pile of humility. "While Bill talked about social change,"...

Revising Normandy

Check out Dissident Frogman's report about some interesting co-incidences at the Memorial Museum at the Battle of Normandy. I feel...

"Involuntary Euthenasia" in Belgium

A article translated by former Belgian lends credibility to the contention that right-to-die laws can lead to what is euphamistically...

Diagnosis Columbia

Stephen DenBeste points out that increased environmental friendliness might have been the critical factor which killed the crew of the...

The Generous U.S.A.

According to NewsMax the U.S. State Department is continuing to give away parts of Alaska to Russia. No doubt, this...

A Flush for Me, But Not For Thee

Tom Randall comments on moves by Western environmentalists to deny the flush toilets they use to the developing world....

Clinton for Bush in '04?

Are the Clintons working for a Bush victory in '04? According to Dick Morris (FWIW), the Clintons are working to...

Miss Manners on America

Judith Martin comments: "All men are created equal" is a revolutionary idea that inspired many to immigrate to this country....

More Tales from Boston

Deb and her husband, previously terrorized by munchkins-from-hell, have decided to stay and try to fix the situation. In her...

Martha Burk, Where Are You?

Tresa McBee, one of my favorite columnists (from rural Arkasas, at that!) wonders aloud why "feminists" who were concerned about...

US Judge Rules Iraq Trained 9/11 Hijackers

NewsMax reports: In a bombshell finding virtually ignored by the American media, a U.S. district court judge in Manhattan ruled...

Klingon Anyone?

There are those who argue our government should support every language spoken by it's constituents. Newsday reports that Multnomah Country,...

He's Just Dying to Be There!

Gramps kicked over, but the family felt that was no reason for him to miss his grandaughter's wedding! Those wacky...

Astounding Democrat Flip/Flops

Vincent Ferrari documents some truly amazing Democrat flip/flops over at Insignificant Thoughts. Go. Read. Be aghast....

Pro-Marxist Slant Pushed at ABC, Retired Correspondent Claims

Reporter Peter Collins alleges: [Peter Jennings] took a piece that I had written about the 10th anniversary of the Sandinistas...

Intelligence & Clinton

Manoor Ijaz in National Review: Analysis of documents found in the rubble of Iraq's intelligence headquarters show that contrary to...

Kids who play by themselves learn to think for themselves

From Canada's National Post: Parents anxiously arranging play dates for their children and schools intent on building social skills might...

It's My Metabolism...

Diet advice from the WSJ via Jane Galt: Doctors have long been fascinated by people who claim to eat very...

All the News Which Wasn't Fit to Print (or Broadcast)

From CNN: For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and...

More "Arab Street" Unreality

FoxNews interviews an Abu Dhabi reporter who says: (a) he was completely surprised that the crowds were cheering, and (b)...

Underground Iraqi Nuclear Complex

WorldNewDaily reports: "I've never seen anything like it, ever," said Marine Capt. John Seegar. "How did the world miss all...

The Newest Threat: Global Cooling?

Harry points to this article which indicate the Middle Ages may have been warmer than tody. "According to the researchers,...

The Overtreated American

The Atlantic asks: Do Americans receive too much medical care? "Recent studies are beginning to show that excess spending in...

Bodyguard: I Know Where the WMD Is

DebkaFILE: One of Saddam's former bodyguards describes where Saddam's WMD is allegedly located, and gives a prediction (months ago) of...

Generals and Journalists

A thought: It's been said that generals always fight the last war. From what I'm seen, journalists cover a war...

NY Times: Please Trash Bush

NewsMax reports: Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger revealed late Wednesday that the New York Times recently asked him to...

'Embedding' Alters Reporters?

Glenn Reynolds thinks embedding has been 'a disaster' for the media since it will cause reporters to bond with the...

An American Hubris

Yourish argues, most persuasively, that Rachael Corrie died of a peculiarly American form of arrogance. While I'm not sure Europe...

Beat the Press!

Deb's hacked off at the media, and wants them to answer a number of thought-provoking questions. Some very good points!...

Who Armed Iraq?

NewsMax has a very informative article on this topic. In short, Russia, France, and China. If what the article says...

Norfolk Island: Fate of the 'Bounty'

A random link from Yahoo! brought me to the place where the mutinied crew of the HMS Bounty finally ended...

An Iraqi Kid Named 'Dick Cheney'

This is hilarious!...

Alaskan Natural Gas

Did you know that some types of natural gas, produced as a byproduct of Alaskan oil, can be converted into...

Cedar Point Rocks!

My good friend Harry informs me Cedar Point is busy constructing the "Top Thrill Dragster": Forty-plus stories, 120 miles per...

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