Archive - Dec 21, 2006

Date

Hearts and Minds

Posted December 21, 2006 - 11:00pm by Curt

The Belmont Club had an interesting post about the use of propaganda by those we are fighting in Iraq.

No words

One security analyst I heard speak claimed that practically every insurgent operation in Iraq had a video camera unit attached, but until recently practically all Jihadi video was in Arabic. "Arabic is the language of the [Sunni Salafist] Jihad, and Jihadi videos were not even widely distributed in places like Indonesia or even Pakistan because they were in Arabic."

Governor Richardson love

Posted December 21, 2006 - 2:01pm by Expat Teacher

Three things to note on the Richardson for '08 campaign today.

  1. The first is that seventy prominent Nevadans called on New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today to seek the Presidency.
  2. Jonathan Singer, over at MyDD, has an excellent post about Richardson Staking Out Position as Candidate with Foreign Policy Credentials.
  3. Jonathan Martin, from the conservative National Review Online, gives as close to a recommendation as I've ever seen for a Democratic candidate with "But the past two occupants of the Oval Office are a testament to the fact that personal flaws need not be a bar to the presidency. And, hey, they didn’t have anywhere near this guy’s foreign-policy experience."

Richardson in '08!

<!-- technorati tags start -->

Technorati Tags: , ,

Defending Cynthia McKinney

Posted December 21, 2006 - 1:33pm by Will Hinton

One of my pet peeves in politics is when elected officials use their position to grind an ideological ax, to demogogue, or to do anything that isn't remotely related to their constituents. I may have found an example of someone doing all three. And it isn't Cynthia McKinney.

As has been well documented, I am no fan of Cynthia McKinney and am thrilled that the voters of the 4th District in Georgia have decided that she must go. But Georgia State Rep. Len Walker has decided to follow her in footsteps by embarrassing his constituents.

The Road to Serfdom

Posted December 21, 2006 - 3:00am by Curt

I was very surprised to find out that in Belgium, 50% of Belgian laws are simply European Union directives converted into Belgium laws, with no vote, no discussion, no modification.

In Great Britain, the figure is 80%.

I assume that other European countries have similiar figures. European countries seem to have given up their soverignty to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Apparantly democracy is dying in Europe.

The Road to Serfdom indeed.