This is indeed a bad security breach by a senior official. What on earth was he doing taking Top Secret STRAP material of this sort out of the building? One of my first Blogoir posts described a grisly experience I had with FCO Security twenty years ago after a I […]
Somehow this profoundly depressing posting by Instapundit back in January about the state of eduction in wealthy America stuck in my mind: Many of my students—entirely too many—come into my 9th grade classroom woefully unprepared for even the most basic rigors of high school science. They do not study. They do […]
Imagine you are the Foreign Office in London. A bit of a wildcat in your youth. Yet still squeaky keen to show Relevance and Cleverness. Egad! An idea dawns. Let London lead the praise for the sybaritic delights of latter-day Western personal freedom! British Embassies should all fly the LGBT […]
The Belmont Club look at Michael Totten’s impressions from Sarajevo. This captures my attention: Sarajevo has largely recovered from the physical scars of the 1990s battles. The one thing that has changed — ripped apart by ethnic powerplays — is the easy sort of intercommunal tolerance of 30 years ago. […]
Some noteworthy statistics from Iraq, compiled by AP: OIL PRODUCTION: Prewar: 2.58 million barrels per day. May 25, 2008: 2.52 million barrels per day. TELEPHONES: Prewar land lines: 833,000. April 4, 2008: 1,360,000. Prewar cell phones: 80,000. April 30, 2008: More than 12 million. WATER: Prewar: 12.9 million people had […]
The BBC last night led its top news programme with warnings of a new famine in Ethiopia, "caused by two factors – drought, and rising food prices". The main ‘deeper’ cause is in fact the long the reign of Marxist terror by dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, which killed a million […]
A neat article about the (erroneous) idea that a twitching butterfly wing can be shown to unleash a chain of events culminating in a hurricane: … a point Lorenz amplified in his 1972 paper, "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" […]
Busy times in the ever-complicated relationship between Poland and Germany. Robert Kubica becomes the first Pole to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix race – driving a BMW in Montreal. Then Germany beat Poland 2-0 in Euro 2008, with Polish-born Lukasz Podolski scoring twice – for Germany! Before the match […]
Who said the Crawfords lack it? Good to see my precious DNA being put to such fine use.
This is a perceptive argument that B Obama has brought together the techniques of 1960s’ New Left/Marxist ‘community mobilisation’ with networked Internet cleverness. But allowing the masses to ‘own the campaign’ has been accomplished in part by letting all sorts of extremists (anti-semitic, communist, Jihadist and others) rant away prolifically – on Obama’s own community website! […]
