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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose $10 million contribution was turned down by Rudy Giuliani in the days after the 9/11 attacks, is showering American colleges and political institutions (like the Jimmy Carter Center for Peace and the James Baker Institute) with multi-million dollar donations: [...]
KIDS ATTACKED BY COYOTES in the Los Angeles suburbs. I guess the Wild West is back. Better strap on a six-shooter. Er, unless you're six. Still, it's more evidence that David Baron was onto something. And the advice from experts in the article is stupid: "Authorities dissuade people [...]
Setting aside all the alarmism about global warming, I think we can all agree that we want to live in a clean environment. None of us wants to breathe polluted air or to fish in polluted waters. But what the green people [...]
UGH: Aid trickles into Burma, but toll 'could reach 1 million if disease set in'. At this point the increasingly-dreadful numbers are basically made up, because nobody really knows what's going on. But the situation is certainly awful. If you'd like to help, this Katrina donation list is [...]
Shameless cheerleading:

Image lifted (shamelessly, no doubt) from this GOS diary.
[...]RANDY NEAL ON THE MEDIA'S DISRESPECT FOR APPALACHIA:
After anointing Obama as the nominee on Tuesday, the media narrative has shifted to the West Virginia and Kentucky "Appalachian" contests. They are reduced to quaint curiosities in which poor, white, uneducated mountain people from a "bygone era" have been trained to [...]
A Whose-State-Is-It-Anyway Update. "Hezbollah rocks eastern villages," from the BBC, May 11:
Control of several villages loyal to Lebanon's pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has been handed to the army after an attack by Hezbollah.
The group's fighters used heavy weapons and small arms to attack the mountain settlements south-east of [...]
Ed Schafer is on the front cover of the Washington Times today saying, in his roll as the US Sec. of Agriculture, that ethanol isn’t contributing to the global food problem:
I love Ed Schafer, but he’s flat-out wrong on this.
Food, like any other product, exists in [...]
VACCINATION UPDATE: Tightening up in Britain? "Children who have not received all their vaccinations should not be allowed to start school, a Labour MP has suggested."
Meanwhile, in the United States: Bay Area School Closed Due to Whooping Cough. "The state averages a 99 percent immunization rate. But at [...]
The open-borders media has been AWOL on John McCain’s decision to speak to the radical racialist group, La Raza/The Race in July. […] Read the rest »
[...]If you’d like to read another incredibly verbose attack by Fjordman that never deals with the basic issues we have with each other, here you go: To the Readers of Little Green Footballs.
(He’s “going over my head,” making [...]
Never liked Philadelphia.
They probably put arugula on their cheesesteaks, too, the pansies.
*** Update ***
Arugula eating bastards just tied it up 1-1. Maybe I need to send Senator Kerry down to order some more swiss on his sammich.
PS- Invincible sucked.
*** Update ***
Take that, Filthadelphians. 2-1, you lovers of the French. [...]
Lebanon facing threat of civil war (Carolynne Wheeler, 11/05/2008, Daily Telegraph)
At stake is whether the factional violence will break down into the full-fledged civil war that plagued Lebanon for 15 years until 1990.The pro-government forces, backed by the West, include Sunni, Druze and Christian factions. Allied with Hizbollah, [...]

The pro-West party of Boris Tadic (shown above) has delivered a stunning, brutal defeat to the reactionary, pro-Russia forces of the radical Serbian nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, outpolling them by a 25% margin in the weekend's parliamentary elections. Spurning Russia despite the recent tumult and polarizing, [...]
Blogging buddy Henry Gomez of Babalu blog has something on Pajamas Media today. He'd make a great addition to Pajamas Media. The banners might bother him- Babalu has one of the most functional blog designs out there.
What is the position of the Cuban community towards post-Castro but [...]