This does sound like a working Surge

Since DQ asked in a comment how we can tell if the surge is working, I’ve been collecting links to blogs and articles that discuss that point.  The Captain has a lucid summary of an article in The Australian in which General Petraeus gives the heads-up about his probable report to Congress.  It all sounds [...]

The Weasel Watchers have spoken

The anticipation was killing, but the Watcher’s Council results are finally in and I can say, with some confidence, that they are good.
On the Council side first place (again!) went to Big Lizards, this time for a stellar article pointing out that, at the NYT: Analogies Are Meaningless (Unless They Favor the Left). As [...]

Destroying children’s socialization

I know you all caught the story about the school in Colorado that banned tag. The school’s primary stated reason for having instituted this ban was to shelter kids they perceived as emotionally delicate:
An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
“It [...]

Important things happen in the comments here

Spurred by Amanpour’s CNN series on religion, DQ, who is a very astute analyst and a thinker who is truly open minded to new information and ideas, wrote his impressions of the show, which led to a lively and very fact intense discussion about Amanpour’s errors, both explicit and implied, regarding Israel’s borders. Regular [...]

What is a “traveling family”?

Despite the fact that we live in a vaccine age, Britain is facing an outbreak of measles, a disease can cause life long damage to its victims:
Parents were urged today to give their children the MMR jab before they returned to school after figures showed measles cases have more than trebled in the last 11 [...]

Neatly avoiding responsibility

NPR did a little eulogy for Richard Jewell:
Lets take a moment to remember a man who really was not a terrorist.
Richard Jewell died yesterday.  He might have saved lives at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.  He was a security guard.  He’s the man who discovered a green knapsack.  He’s the man who ushered several people [...]

Shooty/No shooty. Watch and learn

If you haven’t already caught this at LGF, it’s still not too late.  Catch it here at the source site.