Tigerhawk continues a must-read series on the topic, taking as a starting point the little-remembered Philippine insurgency of a century ago, which turns out to be highly relevant to the current situation.

Lots of pictures on the wire of rain in the streets of Key West, and it seems a tornado did some damage at Marathon Airport, but it looks like, once again, a hurricane roared over south Florida and largely spared the Keys.
The Florida Keys get lucky with hurricanes. When you look at a map, they [...]

40%.
That’s the percentage of our voting population that approves of the job that Bush is doing.
Yikes.
Listen, polls go up and down and it’s impossible (and ill-advised) to conduct your presidency responding only to approval ratings. However, this is less than a year after he was elected to his second term. Bush should be enjoying some [...]

Yes, this is where things lead when you try to mix religion and science.
From the Floridian:
If President Bush and Kansas public schools believe intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution in classrooms, Bobby Henderson says it is only fair to include his deity du jour.
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Henderson, a 25-year-old with a physics degree from [...]

For goodness’ sake, just leave these people alone.
In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for [...]

Could be.
From Space.com:
Small gullies on Mars were carved by water recently and would be prime locations to look for life, NASA scientists said today.
There have been many studies of Martian gullies that concluded water was involved. But most of the features are ancient, or if they seemed modern then there were questions about how the [...]

David Lebryk, acting director of the Mint, had announced in a news release that the rare coins, which were never put in circulation, had been taken from the Mint “in an unlawful manner” in the mid-1930’s and now were “recovered.”
The coins, which are so rare that their value is almost beyond calculation, are public property, [...]

…about breast cancer.
The first post:
The recent declines in death rates from breast cancer show that with research, early detection, prevention, and quality care, we can make progress, and the sobering statistics show why we must. Nearly 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, and over 40,000 women will die this year [...]

According to AnkleBitingPundits, that could be the case.
Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is privately meeting with his top advisors and political contributors to discuss the prospects of an independent bid for the White House in 2008, a high level GOP source told me this morning.
According to the source, Hagel has already begun to posture himself as [...]

The LA Times gives us a pretty thorough look at the the Rove/Plame affair, and suggests the investigation will be done this fall.
Here’s what has happened so far in this story:
2002
February: Vice President Dick Cheney asks whether Iraq sought uranium from Niger.
Feb. 12: The CIA sends Joseph Wilson to Niger.
March 9: Wilson says he finds [...]

Who was Ann talking about? New Yorkers.
Now remember, this woman is actually well paid to contribute her voice to the conversation and is a frequent contributor to Fox News.
So if you ever wonder why a site like Donklephant exists, just look at voices like Coulter’s and you’ll have all the explanation you need.
Watch the [...]

You know what they say. If you put enough pressure on a lump of coal, it’ll turn into a diamond. Apparently, pressure can also turn it into gas.
I’ve complained about the rising cost of gas before, and I always try to highlight solutions. A funny name (Fischer-Tropsch) could potentially present another one.
Brian Schweitzer, Montana’s governor, [...]

Of course it’s only a draft, but when passages that appear right next to each other are so seemingly contradictory, I start to wonder what they’re thinking.
a. No law may contradict Islamic standards.
b. No law may contradict democratic standards.
Read Michael’s entire post here.

I looked back at the two soldiers who were with me outside, and screamed what amounted to “Attack Attack Attack!” I stood up and was yelling at them. Actually, what I shouted was an unprintable string of curses, while Kurilla was also yelling at them to get in there, his M4 trained on the entrance. [...]

Last night, while copy-editing our wire news pages before they were sent to press, I came across the Associated Press’ latest nut graph on Cindy Sheehan.
[N.B.: Nut graph has nothing to do with sanity. It's the few sentences that sum up the background of an ongoing story, and which are printed somewhere down in the [...]

Recently, driving west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, we got off at Carlisle. I used to drive that way regularly, 20 years ago, and I wanted to show my wife my favorite truck stop diner, Fleming’s. But it was gone, absorbed into some huge generic chain of truck stops. The new place was big, shiny, clean, [...]

Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, writes in Foreign Affairs that, while the U.S. and China will certainly be rivals in many spheres, they rely too much on one another to allow themselves to become true enemies. At least, that’s one view from China.

No country can affect China’s fortunes [...]

From the Associated Press: Iraq Lawmakers Won’t Meet on Constitution
Parliament announced it had no plans to meet Thursday night and no date for a future session, signaling Iraqi factions were failing to reach agreement on a new constitution before a self-imposed midnight target.
Or are they just giving up on the deadline?

Accordning to Major General Douglas Lute, General John Abizaid is pushing to reduce by “significant numbers” US troops in Iraq over the next twelve months:
He denied the withdrawal was motivated by political pressure from Washington.
He said: “We believe at some point, in order to break this dependence on the . . . coalition, you simply [...]