You've probably heard that John Edwards is out of the Democrat race - but this new entrant is really going to shake things up...

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The best deal, ever?
It's Wikipedia's seventh birthday today - and we're being treated to all the usual statistics about how vast the site has become. Nine million articles. 250...
Bastards 1 – Ron Paul 0
While you're all focused on the important political issues - Clinton/Obama; McCain/Huckabee/Romney - I have continued to enjoy the Ron Paul insurgency, which...
Lock the children up too
Head over to the BBC website for some eye-opening commentary from (mostly Muslim) readers on the British teacher who has been arrested in Sudan for allowing...
Gang raping Israel
Classy commentary from Frank Gaffney Jr in the Washington Times: It is fitting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue...
Incompetence at UNAIDS (2)
Yesterday, while railing against UNAIDS for its failure to provide accurate estimates of the number of people with HIV/AIDS, I was casting around for the...
re: Australia to return to the Kyoto fold?
My response to Alex's post is - why wouldn't Kevin Rudd take Australia back into Kyoto? The country is already tracking its Kyoto target and is quite capable...
Incompetence at UNAIDS
In 2002, UNAIDS reported that: There are 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS world-wide. 38.6 million of these are adults, 19.2 million are women and 3.2...
Art in a time of genocide
In 1978, Cambodian artist, Vann Nath was locked up by the Khmer Rouge in the S-21 prison. "We were all in one room," he recalls. "We lay naked down on the...
Hack of the year
In the National Review, Grover G. Norquist (slogan: "Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives") wonders why Warren Buffet opposes the...
More Malloch Brown
The attacks on Malloch Brown continue - this time in the Evening Standard's diary (not online): The suggestion is that Gordon Brown did not want Malloch-Brown...
Torture as a presidential qualification
Over at the National Review, the magazine’s editor, Andy McCarthy, wonders whether “those posturing over waterboarding [are] serious enough to be trusted with...
Bringing a country to strife
A message from Asma Jahangir - a heroic defender of human rights in Pakistan. The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the...
Standing by Musharraf
In Slate, Lee Smith paints the Pakistani army as the last bulwark against the Islamic hordes: The Pakistani military, as is the case with most armed forces in...
Paul watch
In the US, it's only 8.30 in the morning on the east coast, but Ron Paul has already raised nearly $800k. Over at Foreign Policy, Mike Boyer says enough is...
Polling Pakistanis
Reacting to the crisis in Pakistan, Ali Eteraz, over at the Guardian, argues that only opportunistic opposition politicians, a handful of lawyers, and...
From the jaws of defeat
The Sunday Times in its lead editorial: Is no news good news or bad news? In Iraq, it seems good news is deemed no news.... The instinct of too many people is...
Musharraf steps over the edge…
According to the BBC, the long-awaited state of emergency in Pakistan has finally arrived: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule...
Bye bye Karen
NYT: Karen P. Hughes, one of the few remaining members of President Bush’s circle of longtime Texas advisers, said today that she will return to private life,...
New form of government discovered
From the Onion: Political scientists at the Cato Institute announced Monday that they have inadvertently synthesized a previously theoretical form of...
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