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My runner-up: Capt. Chesley Sullenberger... BTW, according to this AP story in The Baltimore Sun, Schuringa is a Dutch screenwriter and film...

All the best in 2010!

Carlton Proctor reports in today's Pensacola News Journal : Funding for the Arts Council of Northwest Florida may be terminated in 2010 ...

From The American: Egor Gaidar, the man to whom Boris Yeltsin entrusted Russia’s free-market revolution, died yesterday. He was 53. Every ti...

Will be on vacation a while longer... Hope to have some new posts in 2010.

We're going on vacation ourselves, so will be offline for a while...

Media silence regarding allegations concerning former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith's "sleaze factor" has been deafening, in t...

His press conference dealing with the Ft. Hood Massacre failed the "red face test," IMHO. Obviously, General Casey isn't the o...

I'm with the student protesters on this one. The middle of a recession with high unemployment is no time to pull up the ladder of educat...

With NPR's release of this memo from his personnel file (ht Huffington Post), the Nidal Malik Hasan case begins to come into focus: On...

There's been railing from the right about criminal charges brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but I think Attorney General Eric Hol...

After seeing the Coen brothers' A Serious Man , I found the University of Nottingham's explanation of Schroedinger's Cat on YouT...

Writing for UPI, Indian analyst M.D. Nalapat argues that Hamid Karzai is doing a better job than NATO in Afghanistan , and should not be mad...

After being denied medical treatment: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Death of Hermitage Lawyer in Russian Prison 17 November 2009 - Last night Serg...

From The Rubin Report (ht AtlasShrugs): How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal H...

Alex Alexiev writes: To understand the nature of the problem, a quick look at the origins and evolution of Islamic extremism in America and ...

From an editorial headlined "Corruption Erodes Trust": Then there is the apparent self-dealing of Peter Galbraith, a former Americ...

This seems like more than a coincidence, given the timing of the Ft. Hood attacks, and the fact that the countries hit are involved in Afgh...

From Gal Luft's Middle East Strategy at Harvard blog post: "How the Saudis Radicalize US Troops": While Muslim soldiers have ...

Is Peter Galbraith a corrupt thug? Even if he's not, he sure sounds like one to me, judging from this account in Vermont's Rutland ...