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Happy New Year, folks. More to come later on today but here’s wishing you a wonderful evening, a great year to come, and a safe close to this evening’s celebrations.

It’s noon and that means 12 hours remaining in 2006. How did the predictions hold up and what will we see in the coming year? I’ll try to get to that tomorrow but I’ll be on the road most of the day.

(Still catching up on the blogging, here.) I note over at Virgina Virtucon this post with several suggestions on how Virginia can update its legal structure to address life in the 21st century. Good discussion going on there about the Dillon Rule, by the way. From Wikipedia: In Municipal Corporations (1872), Dillon explained that in [...]

In a guest post over at Hugh Hewitt’s place, Josh Tevino asks the question: Question: is any major event not fodder for the inline left’s complaints about the Administration of George W. Bush? The answer, unfortunately, appears to be “no” and Josh goes around the left side of the blogosphere to prove it. A few [...]

Heh™.

CQ has this post regarding a TV news anchor who is either so categorically stupid or blatantly biased that he referred to the execution of Saddam Hussein as – get this – an assassination. The YouTube link is a vid-capture of the anchor of WESH Orlando talking about their coverage of the execution and says: [...]

MSNBC is reporting that Saddam Hussein has been executed. Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court, al-Hurra TV, al-Arabiya and Sky News TV reported. The deposed president was found guilty over the killing [...]

In blogging on the various items of the day I like to refer back to my previous writing on the subject, if any, so I can rely on past research and the like. In doing so today I was presented with a quick pop-up when I passed the mouse pointer over a link. Inside the [...]

Ed Morrissey comments on the NYT’s editorial this morning wherein they lament on Iraq’s “rush” to execute Saddam. The Captain’s right. The Time’s problem isn’t that Saddam is guilty as sin – they admit that right up front – it’s that the Iraqis have decided to hold him accountable for his genocidal actions by putting [...]

I received a very nice note today from a true gentleman who knows I’m a student of history. He found this item, detailing the conquering Empires of the Middle East over about 5000 years. It’s a great animation and a wonderful “high altitude” view of the area over time. (Requires Shockwave plug-in.)