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Telegraph - Imagine the bombs had gone off: how would Britain have changed? By Niall Ferguson

Five years ago, the world reacted with astounding unanimity. True, Osama bin Laden and his confederates exulted. So did a rent-a-mob of America-hating pseudo-intellectuals. Most people, however, were simply horrified by the loss of innocent life. There was [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Suggested to us by Half:

Hair Through the Ages

There are those who believe history to be the march of kings and generals, the migration of peoples, the clash of cultures. Some believe history to be tales from the shadows, intrigues and plots, illuminati and secret societies. Others believe history is the march of technology, [...]

Categories: History

FOXnews - Captors Release Two FOX News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14

Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Steve Centanni, 60, and Olaf Wiig, 36, left Gaza and have since crossed into Israel after [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

BBC - Pakistan says key rebel is dead

Tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti has been killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces in Balochistan province, Pakistan says. … The octogenarian has been at the head of a tribal campaign to win political autonomy and a greater share of [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The thing that irritates me about the whole WWI deserters pardoning thing is that, as Mark Steyn’s always pointing out, people in Europe (and here) haven’t had to make the sorts of sacrifices or deal with the sorts of issues that go along with having an army and fighting wars. But now they’re passing [...]

Categories: Politics

I dunno, I see these all as linked. I also haven’t finished my coffee.

Power Line - Dueling Headlines

The Washington Times and the New York Times both reported today on a Pew survey that tried to gauge Americans’ attitudes toward religion and politics. The Washington Times’s headline: “Few see Democrats [...]

Categories: Business & Media

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BBC - Uganda and LRA rebels sign truce

The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army have signed a truce aimed at ending one of the most bitter wars in Africa. The agreement, reached during peace talks held in Juba, southern Sudan, is expected to take effect [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Defiant in the face of creeping multiculturalism? Refuse to abandon your sacred sports traditions for the appeasement of weaselly cheaters? Firm in your belief in the superiority of the cultural institutions founded on the bedrock of the Enlightenment, Christianity, and English common law? Sport a head of hair given to curl, untamable [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Two items:

Telegraph - Islam poses a threat to the West, say 53pc in poll

The alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners and last year’s terrorist attacks on London have made more people fear Islam as a religion, not merely its extremist elements, a poll for The Daily Telegraph has found. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Just the place for the Democrats to start winning - Las Vegas, of course, by Gerard Baker

The official reason for the change is that the current system gives too much of a role to states that don’t look much like the rest of the country. New Hampshire and Iowa are [...]

Categories: Politics

Man, that Half. He’s downright prescient.

The Times - Another Katrina and that’s it, by Ben Macintyre The future of New Orleans depends on restoring coastal wetlands. Guess how much has been done

Re-establishing the coastal wetlands is an enormous ecological project, the “biggest, costliest restoration effort ever tried”, according to Fortune magazine, which estimates [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

My Spidey Sense of accuracy and fairness is tingling.

August 24:

Tim Blair - BOMB STORY BOMBED

“If there were Pulitzers for Internet posts,” writes Michelle Malkin, “this one would win hands down.”… UPDATE II. Dan Riehl was wise to this back on August 1

August 23:

Zombie Times - The Red Cross Ambulance Incident: [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Bloomberg - Germans, Spared Until Now, Awaken to Reality of Terror Threat

Germans are beginning to awaken to a new reality: Their country is no longer one of the apparently safe havens in the post-Sept. 11 world.

Ehmm…

While there for a weekend during my fall in London in 2001, I was sitting in the back [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Opinion Journal - Hezbollah Didn’t Win: Arab writers are beginning to lift the veil on what really happened in Lebanon. BY AMIR TAHERI

Very interesting.

I’d ask if any of our journalists are actually in Lebanon, but I know they are. They’re just too busy crawling around the rubble of some building in some one-sheep hole [...]

Categories: War and Peace

It’s been all over the news here (ah hah), so it’s unlikely anyone in this country’s missed it, but here’s the story for everyone else:

CBS - New Orleans Mayor Takes Swipe At NYC

On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public [...]

Categories: People and Current Events