I’m sure that’s true. Politics is a tough racket and personal insults are part of the deal. Nothing personal, just business as usual. Or so Kerrey says. Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has apologized to Barack Obama for any unintentional insult he committed by raising the Democratic presidential candidate’s Muslim heritage while endorsing rival candidate…
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al-Sadr to Continue Restraint?
Reuters says that Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is considering extending a freeze on the activities of his powerful Mehdi Army militia. “Yes, there is a chance that the freeze on the Mehdi Army will be extended,” Salah al-Ubaidy told Reuters late on Wednesday. Ubaidy did not say how long another extension might last or…
Budget Passes Senate, Includes Iraq Funding
In what has to have left an extremely bitter taste in liberals’ mouths, the U.S. Senate approved a $556B spending bill that includes $70B for the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. By a vote of 76-17, the Senate approved the $556 billion fiscal 2008 spending bill. Marking another defeat for Democrats trying to end nearly…
Solar Array Feasible
The BBC has a cool article about the relative feasibility of using a low-orbit solar array as a source of renewable energy here. A recent study by the Pentagon concluded that a solar array in space was close to being technologically feasible, and robotics should soon make the building of large structures in space safer…
Republican Competition Helpful
Ed Morrissey’s post "The Two Words That Strike Fear Into The GOP" has an interesting premise, that the RNC is afraid of the competition that’s going on now between the major Republican contenders: Republican primary voters have sent a very clear message: they have not found their candidate. After a remarkable full-year, full-court press, the…
Liberal Intolerance
The relative merits of liberalism were recently inflicted on a Princeton undergrad in a most forceful way: Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their lives because of their conservative political and religious views. The students—all members of the Anscombe Society, the intellectual family-values organization on…
Deadly Force
The question of when or if deadly force can be used is an open one in the minds of many Americans. Not so in the case of Joe Horn. The Houston Chronicle first reported on Mr. Horn’s case and the pair of burglars he gunned down nearly a month ago, saying: On a 911 tape released…
Lebanese General Assassinated
Just in case anyone was wondering…Yes, there is a war on and no, the other side isn’t exactly playing according to the Marquis of Queensbury rules of warfare. From the NY Times: A powerful car bomb killed a senior Lebanese army general and his guard in an eastern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday, army officials…
A Modicum of Justice
In Indonesia Muhammad Basri was convicted of beheading 3 Christian schoolgirls in 2005 and sentenced to a whopping 19 years in prison. He was also convicted of shooting two other students and a priest in 2004. So that’s what a Christian’s life is worth in Indonesia? 5 years in the clink, where he’ll strut around…
Father Kills Daughter over Hijab
The 16-year-old Muslim girl Michael wrote about earlier has died as a result of injuries her father inflicted on her because she would no longer wear a hijab as he demanded. This heinous act can only be described as the most despicable betrayal possible – the deliberate murder of a beautiful child at the hands of her…