- Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has released a
Unified Policy Statement [PDF].
- Very bad news from Afghanistan:
- The Republican-controlled Texas school board approved plans to
rewrite history books along party lines.
- 60 Minutes reports that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster was caused
by a combination of damaged equipment and capitalist greed on the part of
an unnamed British Petroleum manager. The meat of the story is on
page 4.
- The U.S. Supreme Court authorized the infinite detention of sex offenders
past the time that they were sentenced to prison.
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Kurdish leaders have called a strike in Iran after five Kurds were hanged
for terrorism. The New York Times presumes that the five were innocent.
- Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute reports that Islamic terrorism is
driving Christians out of Iraq.
- The Daily Mail reports that a British attack on a Basra police compound
in 2005 was against direct orders from London.
- Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked by a Muslim student group
while giving a lecture on free speech at Uppsala University.
- A mosque in Jacksonville, Florida was bombed by an unknown attacker,
causing minor damage.
- Ohio allows high school students to attend college for both college
and high school credit.
- Greta Christina describes the reasons behind Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.
- A 67-year-old woman in Yuba City, California was shot and killed by police
inside her own home for brandishing a shotgun after the police attacked her
partner for answering the door at night with a gun in his hand.
The same woman had earlier threatened a census worker with the shotgun,
leading to the police visit.
- A 7-year-old girl in Detroit, Michigan was killed by police
in a botched home-invasion raid.
- An example of how the same climate data can produce two very different graphs.
- U.S. Republican Party figure Newt Gingrich condemned Harvard University
for accepting donations from Saudi Arabia, ironically saying this on
Fox News
which is partially owned by Saudi prince Al-waleed bin Talal.
- U.S. radio host Mark Williams has called for the U.S. to destroy Mecca.
- Charles Postel
of Politico notes the similarities between the John Birch Society and
the "Tea Party" movement.
- John Arquilla describes how U.S. military tactics are failing to adapt
to new and potential opponent tactics.
- Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America's Future notes that the current
debt crisis facing the U.S. was planned by Ronald Reagan and the Republican
Party.
- Monica Duffy Toft of Harvard University finds that "civil wars ending in
negotiated settlements are more likely to recur, no more likely to lead to
democracy than other types of settlements, and do not deliver increased
prospects for economic prosperity."
- U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, who recently joined the Democratic party after
nearly 30 years in the Senate as a Republican, was denied renomination
to the Senate by a Democratic voting public more supportive of challenger
Jon Sestak, currently a Congressman.
- Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul condemned Barack Obama as "un-American"
for wanting British Petroleum to pay for cleaning up its oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
- Rusty Shackleford of the usually right-wing Jawa Report writes in
support of the legal right of Muslims to build a mosque at the World
Trade Center. Regardless our other political differences, he
deserves positive recognition for distinguishing between the two concepts
of "should be allowed to, under the law" and "ought to, in my opinion"
in today's age when so many political commentators and politicians on
all sides do not.
- Lance Mannion writes about how the U.S. economy has been failing for close
to thirty years, and the political elites have only recently begun to notice.
- J.M. Berger of Intel Wire reports that that the U.S. Department of Labor has given
$3.5 million to two Yemeni organizations with close links to al-Qaeda.
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Mike the Mad Biologist notes that the U.S. government's economic stimulus
spending is not reaching local infrastructure and education needs.