Kurdistan: Every twenty years Comes to us a gambling man To stake our country and culture And resources and rivers And trees and fruit And m...

MILSCI: Hi everybody! Hope everyone had a nice holiday(s) and all. I've not been about due to some work related matters, but I think ...

Muslims v. Muslims: Accuracy in Media has a story today that targets the notion that Americans are insufficiently protective of Muslim holy...

Bad News From Georgia: A headline you generally don't want to see in your local paper: "Sheriff posts snipers after firings."...

End the UN: The Tsunami has been the blow that even Iraq was not. The thing is utterly worthless: indeed, insofar as it provides legitima...

China: The China e-Lobby has decided to cease publication of its email newsletters, and become a blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, and goo...

Yeah, Good Idea: The title of the article speaks for itself: "Kim Jong-Il Urges Increased Rice Output This Year." Well, never l...

Advice to Reporters: Greyhawk has some advice to reporters covering Iraq. I think they're pretty much already following it, though.

China: Lessons Learned There have recently been some excellent translations out of the Chinese and Japanese, on the subject of the lessons...

Canis : For reasons entirely unrelated to my intentions, I spent the majority of the day with dogs. Dogs, and one noble cousin. I was su...

Disaster Relief: The US military's response to the disaster in PACOM has been magnificent. The Diplomad has more.

Challenge Update: The Blogger's Tsunami Challenge has decided to up its goal from five thousand to ten thousand dollars, after receivin...

God & Tsunami: Arts & Letters Daily has picked up on the latest echo of an eternal debate. It arises each time there is a natural ...

Mike Mulligan: Here's a bit of a departure for you. While visiting family over the weekend, my mother -- my son's grandmother, th...

Engagement Rings: I see on checking the Blogger's Tsunami Challenge today that a brave young man has decided to take two gambles at onc...

Charity & Leathernecks: I changed the "Leatherneck Tartan" button at the top right to point to the Tsunami Blogger Challenge ,...

Charity Challenge: Blogger Tas has started a Tsunami Blogger Challenge , which has the modest goal of $5,000. The notion is that I should p...

USPACOM Aids the Stricken: There is finally an official press release from DOD on the forces deploying to aid those in the path of the tsun...

Revolution & Disaster: The Associated Press carries a report of two hard-fought revolutions, interrupted by the recent quake: Two of th...

Charity & Goodwill: There's more of the former than the latter, these days. In the event that you should wish to exercise some towa...