Hezbollah guerrillas stage rocket attack within Israeli territory in response to Israel’s bombing of a Beirut airport. Two rockets struck the northern Israeli port of Haifa Thursday as the crisis over the abduction of two Israeli soldiers deepened. The missiles were fired from inside Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said, in a sharp escalation of [...]

Just curious … Is the Plame Game still viewed as real news? What I’d really like to know is how much the entire investigation cost taxpayers — now that would be real news :- )

Late Breaking News … Train blasts in Indian financial capital of Mumbai. U.S. officials said the blasts followed a pattern of initiated by two Islamic terrorist groups — Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed — who focus on the territory of Kashmir, whose control is disputed by India and Pakistan. Kashmiri separatists were blamed for twin car-bombings that [...]

Leave it to the Times to take positive economic news and put a negative spin on it. What starts out as subtle needling i.e. Bush announced the news versus a lower level official … Bush himself announced the deficit — a task that has in the past been left to lower-ranking administration officials. The figures [...]

Japan’s considering the possibility of making a

I’m a space geek. Always have been, always will. I think money put into space exploration is generally both well spent and extremely cool. I regret that I will probably not live long enough to witness the first human colony on another planet. I think life on other planets is a mathematical near-certainty. If I [...]

Is anyone surprised? Amid cries that boiled down to “throw aid ($$) at it,” Congress did what the media and public response demanded and the result is catastrophic waste Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and [...]

Could this happen here? Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system. Changes being introduced since Victoria Climbié’s death from abuse include a £224 million database tracking all 12 million children in England and Wales [...]

World Cup fans … What opinions do you have of this image? Here’s the Eqyptian crowd’s take on the moment.

The Senate is one vote away from passing a Constitutional amendment outlawing desecration of the flag. I’m appalled. I didn’t much care about this when it stood little chance of passing, considering it yet another wedge issue designed to distract us from actual important things. But this thing might actually pass when it comes to [...]

Karl is in the clear — another reversal of misfortune for the Bush White House, and another warning sign to the Democrats that their gloating anticipation of a November Congressional victory has been extremely premature.

At the risk of having my left-leaning credentials pulled, I decided I would venture into a topic that has been ruminating in my head for some time. My goal is to understand and evaluate the objective of those who comprise the left in the netroots. More specifically, I wanted to discuss and debate the calculations [...]

Interesting read and perspective on implications of the recent “immigration reform” legislation … Thoughts?

Yehudit sounds the alert for an international effort on behalf of Egyptian dissidents. Their numbers include some bloggers who have a following here in the U.S. Sandmonkey alerts us to a campaign of worldwide protests in support of jailed Egyptian dissidents, taking place today and tomorrow. The protest in the US are organized by International [...]

Well here’s an interesting development. Wired Magazine has published the full text of some of the documents that Mark Klein has provided against AT&T. The court had placed a gag order on the Electronic Frontier Foundation to prevent the information from being released to the public, ostensibly because it contained proprietary technical information, which, if [...]

John McCain was booed, heckled and mocked as he gave the commencement address at the New School in New York today. Some faculty members behaved as childishly as students: [D]ozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised signs in protest and a distinguished student speaker pointedly mocked him as he sat silently [...]

MSNBC host and former conservative, Reaganite, GOP congressman Joe Scarborough on the latest unconstitutional travesty: “Big Brother is listening. No, really. . . . Whatever you consider yourself, friends [liberal or conservative] you should be afraid, you should be very afraid. . . this domestic spying program is so widespread, it is so random, it [...]

Looks like we’re going to the Save Darfur rally in DC this Sunday. I say it ‘looks like’ because although we have plane tickets, and hotel reservations, and have boarded the animals, one can never overestimate my family’s capacity for screwing up even the most settled plans. Used to be there was a one-to-one ratio [...]

So Al-Zarqawi has released a video in which he attacks the United States and all of his other enemies. And who are they? “Any government that will be established in Iraq today, whoever is in it, whether they are the rejecters (Shiite Muslims) or the secular Zionist Kurds or the agents who are Sunnis in [...]

Calm down, I’m not going to say there’s “long established ties” between them. But they’re both in headlines this weekend. Bin Laden wants a jihad in Darfur, “according to an audiotape attributed to him which aired on Sunday.” The speaker, who sounded like the Saudi-born militant, also said on the tape broadcast on Al Jazeera [...]