Appropriate Technology - Latest Inventions From MIT Lab Help Developing Countries - Popular Mechanics MIT’s Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day
The Corner on National Review Online In short, the procedural protections afforded the Guantanamo detainees under the statute before the Supreme Court in Boumediene [ACM — several of which I list in today’s article] substantially exceed those accorded the Nuremberg defendants. Obama’s unfavorable comparison of the legal treatment of the Guantanamo detainees with that of the Nuremberg defendants suggests either that he does not know what he’s talking about, or that he feels free to take great liberties with the truth.
Me and My Girls - The Night of the Gun - David Carr - NYTimes.com The Official Night of the Gun Website (From Simon & Schuster)
How China’s taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried | Mail Online How China’s taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
Chris Blattman’s Blog: Easterly on Obama All aid proposals since the 60s follow the same script: (1) announce an ambitious goal (’halving poverty’) (2) invoke Marshall Plan as a very promising precedent (3) say you will double foreign aid (its always exactly double) (4) ignore the historical record on previous aid programs that also did (1) through (3)
David Frum’s Diary on National Review Online Are we debating one specific environmental hazard? Or is "climate change" a new rationalization for fastening on the US a program of government economic controls that would never otherwise be accepted?
Western Standard A step toward accountability in First Nations communities
Commentary » Blog Archive » Obama in Ramallah Will Obama pose such questions? It’s almost unimaginable.
small dead animals: Down The Memory Hole The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech.
