I now have one less thing on my list of “Never Have I Ever.” I have now felt an earthquake for the first time! We were over at a friend’s house for an Easter BBQ, and I had just sat down with my plate of food at the table. It felt like my chair was… Read More Easter Quake
“Get out your sweaters, jackets, and coats because tomorrow it’s going to get cold! A cold front is moving in and tomorrow’s high will be 63 degrees–that’s a six and a three.” I actually heard this announcement on the radio while driving back from my interview this morning. It is now official that I live… Read More Cold Front Coming–Bundle Up!
Here’s a link to a very interesting article in the IEEE Spectrum on asymmetric warfare, explaining how our military focus on technology was crucial for success in the Cold War and Gulf War I but may have led to the wrong conclusions in fighting low-tech asymmetric opponents in Vietnam and Iraq. At the end the… Read More Asymmetric warfare
“This”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13081646/ is an amazingly tragic situation made even more painful for some of the families involved because of an extremely unfortunate ID mixup. I find it a little surprising that the mistake was made in the first place, let alone that is was propogated for so long.
Not Pennsylvania–that’s the Palestinian Authority I’m talking about. I haven’t seen anything about this in the MSM lately, but it appears that the Hamas-led PA is headed for “serious trouble”:http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/israel/articles/20060522.aspx.
A Bush “response” to Ahmadinijad can be found “here”:http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Njc0MjdjMzAzNzRjMGU4NDk3NGM3NDIzNDZlMjY0YWE.
Ahmadinejad’s ponderous, reproachful screed to President Bush can be found “here”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/ahmadinejad0509.pdf. The nut rants on and on for 18 pages chalk full of conspiracy theories, assorted grievances, hypocritical moralizing and pseudo-juvenile taunting while neglecting to mention the substance of the current confrontation–Iran’s illegal and destabilizing nuclear program. It’s a real wonder that anyone in the… Read More Ahmadinejad letter
Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain’s “commencement speech”:http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsCenter.ViewSpeech&Content_id=1732 at Liberty University was pretty good–certainly better than anyone who was around during the 2000 election primaries would have had any reason to guess at the time.
If there’s one thing radical Muslim terrorists like Zarqawi seem to crave it’s to be taken seriously, so any time one of these guys is mentioned in the media as a dangerous terrorist it actually has the effect of increasing their status among their potential recruiting base and a certain segment of their Arab peers.… Read More Laughter is the best medicine, err, weapon
Still at the airport . . . but I came across another great article related to “my post”::http://themoodysideoflife.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,36/p,48/ from the other day. David Cloud, although just a high school economics teacher (in Pendleton, Indiana–only about 20 mi. from my hometown) writes as clearly and persuasively on the topic as anyone I’ve seen. Check it out… Read More More on the “gas crisis”