POPE'S 2010 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

The Pope is sounding like Hal Lindsary, et. al., with regard to the moral collapse of western civilization.

THE WARS OF 2011

Foreign Policy predicts where the wars of 2011 might take place. Mexico is on the list! But since 50 places are cited, it does not look like a good year.

WOMEN ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

Pakistani female Islam bombers may be the wave of the future.

Pakistani Taliban have established an all-women wing of suicide bombers to carry out terror missions across the country, dramatically revealed a 12-year-old girl who managed to escape from the clutches of the rebels from near the Afghanistan border.

Meena Gul's brother, a Taliban commander, told her: 'You will go to heaven before any of us, if you blow up yourself the way I tell you.'

OBAMA'S BIPARTISANSHIP

Obama's rhetoric is interesting and I haven't seen the media analyze it. But a headline "Obama Assails Republican Foes, Urges Bipartisanship" seem to be the message of the past year. I don't know how this will get Republicans to work with him even if they wanted to.

CONSTITUTION NOT UNDERSTANDABLE

If the U.S. Constitution cannot be understood because it is more than 100 years old, we might as well stop studying history. . .or maybe the Bible. . .or what about Plato????

CHINESE MISSILE

Article on how it works. If it can take out aircraft carriers, American naval power will be serverly limited.

CALIFORNIA, A THIRD WORLD STATE

Victor Davis Hanson describes rural California--it doesn't sound like the California I saw 30 years ago..

It is almost as if the more California regulates, the more it does not regulate. Its public employees prefer to go after misdemeanors in the upscale areas to justify our expensive oversight industry, while ignoring the felonies in the downtrodden areas, which are becoming feral and beyond the ability of any inspector to do anything but feel irrelevant. But in the regulators’ defense, where would one get the money to redo an ad hoc trailer park with a spider web of illegal bare wires?

CHINA vs. AMERICA IN EDUCATION

A discussion of why China's students are performing better than US students. Students are engaged and study. The quality of teachers doesn't seem to be critical.

HEALTH CARE IN THE US

Costs have escalated far more for in the US than other modernized countries since the 1980s.

RUSSIAN MOLE IN NSA

From the Washington Times. The National Security Agency (NSA) is conducting a counterintelligence probe at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters in a top-secret hunt for a Russian agent, according to a former intelligence official close to the agency.