Blogs offered the best first draft of last week's bombings in London. Arianna Huffington said the bombings discredit the Bush
adminstration's fly paper theory for the Iraq War.
The Bush administration says the U.S. will retain control of the Internet's root servers canceling plans to turn control over to the UN on September, 2006. Some are concerned this could cause the Internet to splinter off into multiple internets.
Stars and Stripes reports that this year's desertion numbers of 2,518 are already almost as high as the count for all of last year, which was 2,723.
Greg Mitchelle at Editor and Publisher asks if Dick Cheney is the new
Baghdad Bob:
Is it just me, or is Vice President Cheney starting to sound like another balding, rose-colored-glasses wearing war spokesman, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as "Baghdad Bob"?
Yesterday, after a week of serious criticism, for claiming that the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes," Cheney refused to back down, even after Gen. John Abizaid, our top military commander for the Middle East, proclaimed that the insurgency, in fact, was as strong as ever, and "a lot of work" remained to be done to defeat it. Earlier this week, GOP Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska had said he was sick of sunny assertions about the war from the White House, and declared that the United States indeed might be losing, not on the edge of victory.
Yet Cheney said on Thursday, "If you look at what the dictionary says about 'throes,' it can still be a violent period." He compared this time to the end of World War II when tough battles "occurred just a few months before the end. I see this as a similar situation." Give this man a beret!
Is it time to start calling him "D.C. Dick"? Or "Baghdad Dick"? Or perhaps "Bunker Bob"?
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of 2004 Vice Presedential candidate John Edwards, is writing a book and a book proposal is being shown now to publishers.
This map provides a graphical representation of where the service men and
women that have died in Afghanistan and Iraq were from in the U.S.
Caspar Weinberger, a two-term Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, has penned a thriller novel with Peter Schweizer called Chain of Command.
Eclectech.co.uk offers a humorous take on Britain's need for national ID cards.
More liberals believe in ghosts than moderates or conservatives according
to an important new Gallup Poll.
Schwarzenegger on Global Warming:
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says that the science is accurate and that the time to fight global warming is now. He is implementing a new greenhouse gas law in California. In a recent speech he said despite what others, including the Bush administration, have said helping the environment does not hurt the economy.
These steps are great for the environment and great for our economy, too. Many people have falsely assumed that you have to choose between protecting the environment and protecting the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. In California, we will do both.
That is why I am travelling around the state and my administration is holding a series of conservation summits for businesses around California, spreading the word that pollution reduction is good.
Pollution reduction has long been a money saver for businesses. It lowers operating costs, raises profits and creates new and expanded markets for environmental technology.
New York Senator Charles Schumer and others have been very critical of the upcoming 25 to Life game. Schumer calls 25 to Life a "cop killer" game and wants it boycotted. The multi-player online game allows players to become a gangster or a law officer.
