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Must read: The truth about the environment, an economist article by Bjorn Lomborg. In it he attacks some of the sacred cows of environmentalist doctrine, and wins. That said, there are still many good arguments in favor of environmentalism that don’t have anything to do with impending global disaster and starvation.

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Time has a transcript of a satellite phone call with Alex Perry, their correspondent who was on the scene when the prison revolt at Mazar-i-Sharif began.

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Somehow Robert Fisk has managed to find his way to Kandahar, the Independent claims that he’s the only Western journalist who has been able to do so. His first dispatch from Kandahar is jarring, it tells of refugees fleeing American bombing and Northern Alliance assaults. I really hate war.

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In Europe, they’ve rounded up 12 people associated with the assassination of Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Masood. The article also the problems with England’s amnesty program. One of the people implicated in the assassination lives in London and runs something called the “Islamic Observation Center” despite the fact that he was sentenced to death [...]

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The Virtues of a Proxy War Like most liberals, I’ve long considered to be proxy wars to be a bad thing, and historically speaking, they are bad things. Throughout much of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Unions fought proxy wars in places like Angola, the Congo, and Latin America. For the [...]

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More William Safire goodness. I didn’t link to his first column denouncing Bush’s plan to use military tribunals, but I can’t resist linking to this one. The whole column is worth reading, but here’s the key paragraph:

Military attorneys are silently seething because they know that to be untrue. The U.C.M.J. demands a public [...]

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The amount of infrastucture in Afghanistan devoted to training terrorists and supporting Islamist foreigners who lived there is truly staggering. This Observer story describes what the reporter found when he was taken on a tour of Khowst, the town where Al Qaeda members lived and trained. On 9/11, when people talked about terrorist [...]

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This New York Times article has lots of quality information on the prison revolt near Mazar-i-Sharif, which apparently is still ongoing. You’d think that the Afghans would disarm their prisoners, but apparently a lot of them managed to smuggle weapons into the prison. The article also clears the air about the reported massacre [...]

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Courtesy of Snopes.com: the day after Thanksgiving is not the biggest shopping day of the year. I love it when something that everybody knows is true isn’t. For those of you who might be interested, I didn’t shop at all on Friday.

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New York Times: Swept Up in a Dragnet, Hundreds Sit in Custody and Ask, ‘Why?’

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