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Military action is being taken, aimed at the terrorists who have been doing so much harm in Iraq lately. U.S. Kills 75 Insurgents in Iraqi Offensive:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — American troops backed by helicopters and war planes have launched a major offensive against insurgents in a remote desert area near the Syrian border, and about 75 militants were killed in the first 24 hours, the U.S. military said.
It looks like the terrorists are coming in from Syria:
The report, by a journalist embedded with the U.S. forces, said the offensive “was seeking to uproot a persistent insurgency in an area that American intelligence indicated has become a haven for foreign fighters flowing in from Syria.”
Why there was no tsunami warning from agency monitoring seismic activity:
The U.N. agency charged with monitoring seismic activity around the globe sent all of its 310 employees on vacation the week of the massive earthquake and tsunami in South Asia, preventing any possibility of warning to the 227,000 victims.
...The man responsible for that staffing decision is Secretariat Wolfgang Hoffman, 69, a German, who will be leaving the post in August after what one insider at the agency call “nine years of abuse of power.” During his tenure, marked by “mismanagement of monumental proportions,” he has made about $3 million in salaries and benefits.
Mark Fuhrman Probing Schiavo Case:
...Hannity said he personally contacted Fuhrman in March to suggest he probe a myriad of unresolved questions about Ms. Schiavo’s condition, including a 1991 bone scan report showing that Schiavo suffered fractures sometime prior to being found unconscious in her home in February 1990.
Schiavo’s family has said repeatedly that they suspect Terri’s condition was the result of a violent fight she had with her husband, Michael. Police never probed the case for evidence of assault because by the time the bone scan became public in 2002, the statute of limitations had run.
...Fuhrman’s book “Murder in Greenwich” was widely credited with blowing the lid off the Moxley-Skakel case.
Arizona recently enacted a new law requiring those registering to vote to show proof of citizenship. The result: 59% of all new applicants in the past two weeks were rejected.
“We rejected none during the same period last year,” when six times as many people were registering because of the presidential election, said Registrar of Voters Chris Roads. “There was nothing in the law that required a rejection” last year, he explained.
What’s astonishing is that the Democrat party is objecting strenuously:
Paul Eckerstrom, chairman of the Prima County Democratic Party, complained that forcing Arizona voters to prove their citizenship is “anti-American and anti-democracy.”
It’s Anti-American to make sure that only Americans vote for our elected officials? How can Eckerstrom talk such nonsense?
The Huffington Post has been up for 20 minutes as I start to write this entry, so I guess it’s time for a review.
The site is evenly divided between blogs and news. The home page has intros to all the “featured posts” by celeb bloggers (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Mike Nichols, Ellen Degeneres, etc.) listed down the left-hand side of the page. A little digging turns of up lots of other blog posts from non-actor/directors, which, oddly, aren’t considered good enough to be “featured” on this initial day of the site.
The home page also has a button labeled, “The Blog.” This leads to a section containing posts by all the affiliated bloggers, including non-actor/directors—and many of these are excellent. The weakness of this section is that it’s a jumble of subjects and opposing views. It’s not like the group blogs we’re used to, like Power Line and Wizbang, where all the bloggers are on the same wavelength. It’s all over the place. There’s nothing unifying it or making sense out of it. And there’s quite a lot of it. You can check all the new stuff on Power Line or Wizbang quickly. This, it would take a substantial amount of time to get through.
Another button on the home page is labeled, “The News Wire.” This contains a long list of current news stories from all sorts of publications, each with a headline and a paragraph or two from the story. This also is long and unwieldy.
The best thing on the site, and the thing that will probably keep me coming back, is the right half of the front page. This is a Drudge-style news site, and in all likelihood is produced entirely by Andrew Breitbart, one of the few people on Earth experienced with successfully producing such a page, having done this for the Drudge Report since the beginning of that site. This part of The Huffington Post rocks. Andrew finds red-hot news from all over the world, presents it with a perfect headline, and links right to it.
The site’s brand-new, and it has some kinks to work out. I advise that they seek a way to tame that mass quantity of unrelated blog posts into something more manageable.
The Center for Security Policy has new web ad that argues well on behalf of John Bolton:
John Kerry and his friends are sore losers.
They’re unhappy that the American people last Fall rejected the idea of making the U.S. submit to the UN and its so-called “global test.”
Instead, the American people voted for George Bush and his policy of strong U.S. leadership in world affairs.
The voters understood that the UN is broken, with anti-American dictators and bureaucrats calling the shots.
It needs more than reform. The UN needs to be transformed if it is going to be of any help in promoting freedom and securing peace.
Now, President Bush wants to have a U.S. ambassador who is dedicated to UN reform, John Bolton.
But, Senator Kerry and his friends think that if they can block John Bolton’s nomination, they will succeed where they failed last November.
Then they will help a dysfunctional UN stave off real change and continue its anti-American agenda.
The Democrats to should stop using the politics of personal destruction.
George Bush is right. It’s time to start transforming the United Nations.
And John Bolton is the man to do it.
View the ad here.
