This has been a Memorial Day weekend that the United States would rather forget. Over the weekend news broke about a massacre in Iraq and a riot broke loose in Afghanistan.
More information is being made available regarding the alleged massacre at Haditha, Iraq, by U.S. Marines. From what is understood, on November 19, [...]
The Economist has a great cover story on what they call the Axis of Feeble, the strong alliance of incompetence between Bush and Blair. From the article:
That Mr Bush has made big mistakes in foreign policy is not in doubt. He oversold the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, bungled the aftermath, betrayed America’s own [...]
President Bush announced today that he will deploy some 6,000 National Guards along the United States border with Mexico. 6,000 National Guards is a force 1/2 of that deployed in the Afghanistan, about 5% of the number of servicemen in Iraq. It seems that the United States has declared a war on the [...]
The fact that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought MySpace for an estimated $580 million has been widely covered. News Corp is the parent company of the Fox television network amongst other publishing outlets. When I first heard that Murdoch bought MySpace I thought that Bill O’Reilly would soon create his own MySpace page.
The [...]
Has anyone seen the trailer for An Inconvenient Truth? Wow. I just saw it and it looks like a good thought provoking documentary. It looks like it is based on a talk by Al Gore and just edited with new reels and footage to drive the message home: Global warming is real [...]
By now everyone has seen the video of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. If you aren’t everyone and still haven’t seen it then check it out, it is funnier than his show even though he had a tough crowd. During his speech, Colbert touched on international issues. In [...]
The U.S. Military revealed video of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, fumbling with a jammed U.S. made machine gun. The military wants to demonstrate him as an inept terrorist when have all seen plenty of videos that shows that President Bush is an inept leader. I would much rather [...]
What do you get when you mix a college student in trouble, allegations of plagiarizing, and technorati? The biggest story to hit the blogsphere since Tammy NYP and A Million Little Pieces.
Kaavya Viswanathan, a 19 year old Harvard University student, has been accused of plagiarizing Megan McCafferty, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, and Salman Rushdie [...]