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Not Again – More boring “mostly law enforcement and intelligence stuff” this weekend:
LONDON (AP) – British Airways (BAB) and Air France on Saturday announced the cancellation of seven flights to and from the United States because of security concerns.
BA canceled four flights between Heathrow Airport and Washington on Sunday and Monday and one from Heathrow [...]

Kerry, intended as criticisms of him:
o He’s been attacked by UO bete noires Max Boot and David Brooks
o He has “scant legislative achievements,” which is, frankly, the most a libertarian can hope for from a Democrat
o He told Tom Brokaw that
[t]he war on terror is less–it is occasionally military, and it will [...]

Coming this Weekend – Watchmen-blogging roundup, including more e-mail and a Watchmen blogwatch. Consideration of this week’s Now They Tell Us – Reuel Marc Gerecht’s Weekly Standard article on Ayatollah Sistani and the caltrops strewn along the road to the democratic revolution. BruceR of Flit picks up on concerns that
a Sistani-blessed Iraqi state will likely [...]

There have been some reports in the last week quoting US commanders as saying that they were close to “turning the corner” in defeating the resistance. These reports have recurred every couple of months since the summer. (Before that, you may recall, the story was that to call what was happening in Iraq a “resistance” [...]

What the Future Holds – Thanks to the net.sorcery of Neilalien, you, yes you, can now divine the future via the legendary Orb of Aggamotto.

Annals of Overanalyzing – Is it just me, or is the CNN article on the newly-discovered Van Gogh condolence letter really jumping to conclusions? Here’s the situation:
Historians have long speculated that Van Gogh was a “replacement child” for his parents, who lost an infant boy at birth on March 30, 1852. They named the stillborn [...]

More Devils in the Details – Couple of weeks ago I wrote about the surprisingly modest goals for the size of the new Iraqi military:
How is Iraq supposed to defend itself in that neighborhood with 40,000 soldiers and a bunch of guys with binoculars and jeeps? It’s not. The numbers indicate the plan, and the [...]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand – Your one-note blog joke of the day. If the author can sustain it, it will be, in its way, an impressive feat.

Weapons of Some Destruction Redux – At first I wondered if there was an echo around here, but Independent Institute honcho David Theroux assures me that “We also have been talking about this for years.” Point of discussion? Ivan Eland’s latest column, with the catchy title, “Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Overrated as a Threat [...]

It Takes a Comics Blogger – No less a personage than the legendary Neilalien has fixed this site’s problem with text selection in Internet Explorer for me. Neil: You. Da. Man. As of now, IE users can select as much or as little text as they want. The new problem introduced is that the two [...]