Zell Was Right: So say national Democratic Party leaders , according to this piece: 'What I was telling them was right and correct, if o...

The Faithful: Commentary magazine runs this month a piece by a Yale university professor of computer science, David Gelernter. Dr. Gelente...

Social Security: Monomaniac Joshua Micah Marshall has turned his laser-beam focus on the issue of Social Security reform. Well, actually, ...

A Lesson in Politics: Via Samizdata , I found this story from the Dallas Observer . It provides a useful reminder of the nature of politic...

Ingeld & Christ: An interesting story from Laksamana.Net underlines both the differences of Southeast Asian Islam, and the age of the r...

Royal Marines: The GeekWithA.45 tells a story, pertaining to the selection of a military sidearm: 'As regards to calibers, I once had a...

Incitement: If you want to interrupt a festival, this is how serious people do it : "Had we not recovered these bombs and arrested thes...

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 ...