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Hurricane of media mendacity By Mark Steyn Published October 3, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Rather was on "Larry King" the other night and was asked about the Katrina coverage. Yet Hurricane Dan professed himself delighted with...

James C Moyer winchester VA 22601 Someone of Fundamentalist origin wrote a clever story defending yet again the fallacy of Intelligent Design and so I had to respond with a story of my own. Herewith... Somewhere once upon a time there was a professor who enjoyed the debate sparked by...

I got friends of all political stripes but it is the conservatives and liberals who are so sure of themselves that get an argument from me. The ones who are so sure, you will notice them mostly talking with the like minded and show the hand to those who aren't. But it is generally universal...

Paul Greenberg Washington Post Even more shocking than the murder and mayhem in London last month was the identity of the bombers. They weren't some shady foreigners out of a bad spy novel but home boys — four young men between the ages of 19 and 30, products of respectable, law-abiding...

This is the story of Abu. This is the story of primogeniture, alive and well in the present tense in the cradle of civilization, the Garden of Eden between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Babylon, the ancient Chaldea and their astronomers, and the cuneiform before old Assyria. Abu means...

The Kyoto treaty aspires to do right. The science may appear totally proven but that debate is fruitless because of its intolerance for discussion and because the questions of how we treat the environment and how we provide for our energy needs are important in and of itself. But this analysis...

June 29, 2005 The End of the Rainbow By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Dublin Here's something you probably didn't know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg. Yes, the country that for hundreds of years was best known for emigration, tragic poets, famines, civil...

June 26, 2005 Along the Syria-Iraq Border, Victory Is Fleeting in an Effort to Rout Out Foreign Fighters By SABRINA TAVERNISE KARABILA, Iraq, June 21 - American marines climbed atop the collapsed roof of the final house to be searched this week in an operation to clear this desert town of...

june 26, 2005 Troops Will Carry General's 'Common Sense' Rules on Wallet-Size Cards By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, June 25 - American troops in Iraq are getting a new list of dos and don'ts on how to behave in the war zone from their top ground commander. At a hearing of the House Armed...

26, 2005 Riverbank Promenade in Basra Pulses Anew With Life By EDWARD WONG BASRA, Iraq, June 25 - There is a famous Iraqi folk song called "He Went to Basra and Forgot About Us." It tells of love and broken promises and wounds that cannot be healed. Abdul Raheem Sultan listened to a tape of...

These are the people the world wouldn't mind taking over in Iraq. May the Iraqi people thank the world for being more concerned about American sin. The Iraqis really appreciate the concern of the world. They're glad that the insurgents mean well. I doubt anybody will really read this...

June 27, 2005 Amid the Turmoil, Iraqis Who Seek Historical Perspective, Skills and Solace Turn to Books By SABRINA TAVERNISE BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 26 - In a narrow alley off Mutanabi Street, Baghdad's main book market, the Dar al-Bayan bookshop is full of dust and classics. Old men sip tea in...

Meet the New God. Meet the God of Facts. Meet the God of web links. Meet the God of UNASSAILABLE PROOF. We all know the type. The one who is so sure he or she is right. They will gladly prove it to you. Hundreds of web links must prove they are right. How can you be so stupid in the face...

Let's understand what mishandling means. Under the rules the Pentagon later instituted at Guantanamo, proper handling of the Koran means using two hands and wearing gloves when touching it. Which means that if any guard held the Koran with one hand or had neglected to put on gloves, this would...

The New Economic Warriors By Robert J. Samuelson Post Wednesday, April 13, 2005; A17 They've gone from heroes to bums. Hardly a day passes when the press or prosecutors don't thrash some corporate CEO for alleged managerial blunders or accounting illegalities. The insurance mogul Maurice...

In Iraq, an Echo of Algiers By George F. Will Post Thursday, April 28, 2005; A23 On Sunday night Iraqi insurgents bombed the Al Riadhy ice cream parlor in Baghdad, bringing to mind a movie that was much on the minds of some U.S. military leaders on the eve of the war with Iraq. The 1965...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST. This is a subject that continually pops up. A poster will throw a link to prove it. See? Conflict of Interest. End of Story, they say. But is that the end of the story? Is that all the thought there is on the matter ?? There's more to this, and I seriously wonder if...

What is the nature of conspiracy ? What gives rise to this question is the assertion that 9/11 was an American conspiracy. To me, such an accusation, comes close to the one you hear about the Holocaust being zionist propaganda to elicit mercy for the Jews. These accusations are righteously...

Is this board capable of analysis ??? LOL !!! Can this board honorably answer the following: Is war illegal if used to stop the carnage in Ruwanda, or Yugoslavia, where no imminent danger to your own country is present? Would war be illegal if the destruction of Dafur in the Sudan is...

washingtonpost.com Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable Project in North Reveals Deep Divide Between U.S. and Iraqi Forces By Anthony Shadid and Steve Fainaru Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, June 10, 2005; A01 BAIJI, Iraq -- An hour before dawn, the sky still clouded by a dust...