Update on Baby Charlotte
In late February I posted about Charlotte Wyatt in England, a brain damaged baby the British courts deemed unworthy of life-saving measures if she stop breathing due to a …
Feingold Wants Bush Censured
Updated Russ Feingold says President Bush should be censured by the Senate: March 12, 2006-- In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold …
CIA Allows Thousands of Secrets in On-Line Database
This is completely amazing. The CIA apparently can't keep even the most basic of information about itself off the internet. Things like the names of covert-ops and locations of …
Noxious Nostalgia at VH-1
As darn near every non-idiot knows, the television is oft called the "idiot box." Interestingly, this sobriquet predates the E! Entertainment Television channel. If you ask us, this means …
Dr. Wafa Sultan: Fearless Truthteller gets Death Threats
Updated I blogged last week about Dr. Wafa Sultan's bravery for going on al Jazeera television and saying the following: "We have not seen a single Jew blow himself …
Slobodan Milosevic Found Dead
Good riddance. (CNN) -- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead on his prison cell bed in a U.N. detention center in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was …
Here Endth The Bonfire
The Bonfire of the Vanities, a self-submitted collection of the worst posts by otherwise excellent bloggers, has had a good run but it's time to put out the fire. …
Church and State, and "suffer the little children"
There's a huge political fight going on in Massachusetts right now, pitting two great forces against each other. And I find myself taking a side I didn't foresee ever …
Unemployment Rates: Then and Now
Jayson at PoliPundit posted the unemployment rates from February 1998 and February 2006: February 1998 3.9 - Whites. 9.7 - Blacks. 6.8 - Latinos. On the other hand: February …
Carnival of the Trackbacks LIV
Reader recommended stories for Saturday, March 11, 2006....