In spite of being long gone, the damage from Hurrican Katrina continues as more of New Orlean’s levee system fails and water continues to rise in the city. Latest estimates put 80% of the city under water with recovery thought to involve literally months to get the water out of the streets. If you can, [...]
I have been a regular reader of New Sisyphus since he was brought to wider attention during the asian tsunami crisis and I have found his insights to be quite valuable. This remains true today even after circumstances forced his withdrawl from the Foreign Service in the DoS. The move from overseas back to the [...]
In spite of being long gone, the damage from Hurrican Katrina continues as more of New Orlean’s levee system fails and water continues to rise in the city. Latest estimates put 80% of the city under water with recovery thought to involve literally months to get the water out of the streets. If you can, [...]
That Arthur Chrenkoff continues to post what has amounted to the defacto balancing report about the situation in Iraq isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that he can still come up with such huge volumes of information that speaks to the greater truth behind what’s going on over there that our news media simply continues [...]
How fascinating: when trying to get to Power Line, Captain’s Quarters, Instapundit and Irish Pennants this morning, I can’t get their URL’s to resolve at all. Those are some fairly heavy hitters in the blogosphere. Wonder what’s up? Update: Being a professional network engineer, I can’t help but attempt to troubleshoot an issue like this [...]
In any democracy, unanimous votes are pretty rare. When you have a collection of people coming from different backgrounds and possessing different goals and ideals, it’s nearly inevitable that any topic will produce someone opposed to the action being considered. The larger the group, the greater the likelihood is. So it is with the Iraqi [...]
Back in the end of May I wrote about a judge in Marion Co., IN who ruled that the parents of a boy were no allowed to teach their son about their religion – Wicca – in their own homes. I considered the ruling to be a hugely blatant violation of the parents’ rights and [...]
I guess I’m going to have to start reading the Dallas Morning News on a regular basis. This op-ed was published there way back on 10 July, 2005 and I heard not word 1 about it until I saw it in hardcopy this evening. The crux of the article? That 9 months after the so-called [...]
From LGF, this wonderful little tale of a college newspaper that published stories for a year and a half on the tribulations of a little girl whose only living parent, her father, was sent overseas to fight in Iraq leaving her in the care of family friends. Human interest stories and letters about the impact [...]
So, the Italian Red Cross, an agency claiming protection on the battlefield and passage in war zones past our protective perimeters due to the fact that they are a neutral force has admitted to providing assistance and cover to our enemies. I wonder how many times those 4 terrorists the Italians helped have set up [...]
