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I saw a pointer today to Ralph Peters’ provocative article, Stability, America’s Enemy. He constructs an intersting argument that defies summarization. I don’t agree with the whole thing, but he does make some points that I think are absolutely correct. He utterly rejects the idea of supporting oppressive regimes and artificial stability. [...]

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Salon has a chilling profile of Wafa Idris, the Palestinian woman who was carrying a bomb that exploded in Jerusalem a few days ago (I would refer to as a suicide bomber, but it’s not clear whether she intended to blow herself up, she may have been carrying the bomb for someone else). The [...]

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Bug 51015 - Microsoft should use Mozilla — the title says it all.

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AIM is blocking Trillian users. Do yourself a favor and switch to Yahoo.

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Could Osama bin Laden share the fate of King Herod (of Bible fame)?

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Here’s an interesting data point in the Enron collapse: long term energy prices fell sharply after Enron declared bankruptcy. Could they have been manipulating energy prices? (Link via Red Rock Eater.)

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OK, I thought it was really pathetic that Ken Lay held a prayer session with Jesse Jackson for atonement or succor or whatever, but now his wife is doing the media rounds in an attempt to garner sympathy for the family. The thing is, she says that the family is basically broke, when in [...]

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Bush State of the Union address, I didn’t watch it and haven’t read it yet.

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Hamid Karzai came to America to ask for help, and he’s not getting much for his trouble. President Bush has ruled out using US forces to expand the peacekeeping effort in Afghanistan, despite the fact that Karzai wants a larger peacekeeping force so that peacekeepers can be deployed beyond Kabul, and the “man on [...]

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A British commission has recommended that the government change the way agricultural subsidies are dispensed, moving away from simply paying farmers for growing stuff or raising animals and toward paying them for changing their production methods to protect the environment. We’d do well to examine this report in the United States as well. It would [...]

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