OBAMA'S CHRISTIAN FAITH

The November Atlantic Monthly has a succinct statement by Obama on his conversion to Christianity in which he sounds amazingly evangelical. I can't find it online, but I found this interview. And here is the same testimony I saw quoted in Atlantic Monthly. The media seem to be ignoring his religious beliefs.

PRESIDENT MONKEY

I guess she is trying to be funny.

CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE CONTROVERSY

I didn't realize CNN had stacked this week's Republican presidential debate to the extent it did.

HATE CRIMES STATISTICS

Hate crimes in the US against Catholics and Protestants have increased more than against Muslims.

ANTHRAX AND AL QAEDA

Saddam, anthrax, and terrorism linked? In my opinion still not the shooting gun, but the 2001 anthrax attack still has not been explained sufficiently in my opinion.

MARXISM IS ALIVE IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON

The Olympia Port Militarization Resistance Group. I don't see any LU alums in the group.

DEMOCRAT DEBATE

I finally listened to an entire (well almost) entire debate. I really liked Biden's remarks and intelligence, but obviously he is going nowhere. Don't have time to say more, but I enjoyed Vodkapundit's reactions to the debate.

UNIVERISTY OF DELAWARE DIVERSITY PROGRAM

I think John Leo raises some good questions.

INCOME INEQUALITY HOKUM

The WSJ publishes a study by the Treasury Department which states that "the rich are not getting richer."

If you've been listening to Mike Huckabee or John Edwards on the Presidential trail, you may have heard that the U.S. is becoming a nation of rising inequality and shrinking opportunity. We'd refer those campaigns to a new study of income mobility by the Treasury Department that exposes those claims as so much populist hokum.

OK, "hokum" is our word. The study, to be released today, is a careful, detailed piece of research by professional economists that avoids political judgments. But what it does do is show beyond doubt that the U.S. remains a dynamic society marked by rapid and mostly upward income mobility. Much as they always have, Americans on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder continue to climb into the middle and sometimes upper classes in remarkably short periods of time.

"DETROIT, AN ISLAMIC CITY"

I haven't followed this controversy about the University of Michigan.

"TALK TO YOU LATER BUCKWHEAT"

A Louisiana Democrat! And I still having a hard time about how Louisiana Democrats used the race card on Bobby Jindhal.

THE ULTIMATE JUKEBOX

An extensive collection of oldies.

BACK TO THE SIXTIES

You gotta love the music!

ENVIRONMENT

We've outgrown the planet and need radical action to avert unspeakable consequences. This - by a huge margin - has become humanity's greatest challenge.

OKAY TO BE OVERWEIGHT

Go ahead and have another donut.

DEMOCRAT DEFENSE PORK

A very interesting map. It looks to me like most defense pork is going to Democrat areas. If the defense budget is ever cut back, would all of these Democrats choose cuts or jobs?

CURVEBALL

Update on 60 Minutes program about curveball from the National Security Archive.


THE RECORD ON CURVEBALL

Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War

For more information contact: http://www.nsarchive.org
Washington D.C., November 5, 2007 - CBS News' 60 Minutes exposure last night of the Iraqi agent known as CURVEBALL has put a major aspect of the Bush administration's case for war against Iraq back under the spotlight.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan's charges that Iraq possessed stockpiles of biological weapons and the mobile plants to produce them formed a critical part of the U.S. justification for the invasion in Spring 2003. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's celebrated and globally televised briefing to the United Nations Security Council on February 5, 2003, relied on CURVEBALL as the main source of intelligence on the biological issue.

Today the National Security Archive posts the available public record on CURVEBALL's information derived from declassified sources and former officials' accounts.
While most of the documentary record on the issue remains classified, the materials published today underscore the precarious nature of the intelligence gathering and analytical process, and point to the existence of doubts about CURVEBALL's authenticity before his charges were featured in the Bush administration's public claims about Iraq.

KOREAN FREESTYLE SKATING

Pretty impressive!