I have noted here before the unrest in Haiti. Saturday, there were more killings there, this time in the Port-au-Prince slum of Martissant. This time it was “hooded police and individuals with machetes” attacking “bandits” with machetes. “Everybody gathered to watch the [soccer] game, suddenly the police surrounded the area and ordered everyone to lie [...]

Arizona Senator John McCain isn’t running for president. Not yet, anyway. He isn’t running for the job – officially. That won’t happen, if it happens at all, until after next year’s midterm elections. McCain, who turns 69 on Monday, said “there’s no point” in formally announcing his candidacy until after the 2006 congressional elections. Unlike [...]

This is a great read about the much maligned vehicle. Personally, I don’t see a future where I’ll own one, especially given the high gas prices. I know of other types of cars that can accomodate youngsters (if kids are in my future) and keep them entertained. But what I want to know is, when [...]

Shaun Daily asked me two questions last hour when I was on his radio program that sort of stumped me: 1) What’s the most exciting news out of Kansas City, MO? 2) If you could have Donklephant report on any political event in history, what would it be and why? So then… 1) The state [...]

One last time, here are the details for my appearance on Subject2Discussion: DONKLEPHANT will be on my webcast/podcast program SUBJECT2DISCUSSION this coming Wednesday at 6pm PST LIVE on http://www.lvrocks.com. Click on listen and click on cam/chat. Podcast: http://podcasts.lvrocks.com/rss.aspx?channelid=5 Please join us LIVE! I’ll be on between 6:30 PST and 7:30 PST. UPDATE: 9:02 pm CST [...]

Here’s the explanation from CNET: On Monday, Aug. 22, a pair of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, blasted off the sun and headed toward Earth. A CME is a huge bubble of plasma that’s ejected from the sun’s corona over the course of several hours. Disturbances of the Earth’s magnetic field (geomagnetic storms) and auroras [...]

I’ve blogged about the terrorist apologist Omar Bakri Mohammad (OBM) before, and detailed his love affair with the British social system. Here’s a taste of from that previous post: He receives £331.28 a month in incapacity benefit and £183.30 a month in disability living allowance because of a leg injury he suffered in his teens. [...]

Space shuttle Discovery gets a lift home to Florida.

During ’90s, Saddam drained one of the most beautiful environmental gems in Iraq to get back at the Marsh Arabs who opposed him. The marshlands occupy and area that’s bigger than the Everglades, but they were reduced by 90 percent. Originally, millions lived in the marshland and the area also produced a lot of Iraq’s [...]

Frist, the bad news: The U.S. Army (search) will miss its recruiting goals this year but will be able to sustain troop levels in Iraq over the next four years, a high-ranking general told FOX News. Lt. Gen. James Lovelace (search), the Army deputy chief of staff, said the Army can sustain 100,000 in Iraq [...]

I was glad to see the headline: US says N.Korean right to nuke power no deal-breaker. NK’s nuclear weapons program must stop. I have been discouraged by the fact that there is no good way to separate the potential of nuclear energy from the potential to make nuclear weapons. So I was heartened by the [...]

From the Washington Post comes news about Iran’s weapons programs: Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined. “The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving [...]

Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best selling books The Tipping Point and Blink, points out an interesting correlation between poor dental health and poor people: People without health insurance have bad teeth because, if you’re paying for everything out of your own pocket, going to the dentist for a checkup seems like a luxury. It [...]

The Religious Policeman is funny enough to do stand-up. You’re not reading him? You don’t know what you’re missing. He casts a glittering eye on his native Saudi Arabia, which presents a fat target for his sense of humor. When he’s not funny, he tells stories that can be outright tragic. But when he’s doing [...]

The word on the grip reaper’s cloak is “Extremism.” Lest you get the impression that there are no propagandists at work in the Arab/Muslim world against terrorism and jihadism, MEMRI has collected a set of recent political cartoons on the topic. Granted, most of these are from publications overseen by, if not outright controlled by, [...]

Man, I hate to refer to myself in the third person, but there it is nonetheless. So last week Subject2Discussion interviewed Duncan Riley, the founder of the Weblog Empire. I blogged about it here and about the subsequent podcast here. They actually talked quite a bit about Donklephant as well, so if you’re curious I [...]

He called the religion of Islam a “terrorist organization”. He would not back down. He was canned. I first wrote about Michael Graham and it sparked a firestorm of comments. At that time he had been suspended from his program for making what I thought were provably false claims, considering that Islam is a religious [...]

This is pretty interesting. Apparently a faith-based group was using federal funds to promote their religion, so the administration pulled the funds. They claim they weren’t. Representatives of the Pennsylvania-based nonprofit describe Silver Ring Thing as a “faith-based” group but dispute charges it has commingled its public funds with religious activities. “Any religious teaching that [...]

This is the first proposal, not yet ratified… Chapter One Article One The Republic of Iraq is an independent state. Article Two The political system is republican, parliamentary, democratic and federal. 1. Islam is a main source for legislation. – a. No law may contradict Islamic standards. – b. No law may contradict democratic standards. [...]

Here’s one from the other day. It seems Diebold has hired former Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew to promote their touchscreen voting machines across the country. Diebold sees California as a crucial market: His first stop: California, the nation’s largest market for voting machines and the place where Diebold’s fortunes as the largest supplier [...]