What do McCain voters know?
Remember that sobering poll of Obama voters? Several people (myself included) were interested in a similar poll of McCain voters. A reader alerted me to the fact that such a poll is now available, here.
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Schiff: Cassandra or stopped clock? You decide
Peter Schiff is an interesting case of prognostication. Take a look at this video (or any number of others), and you will find him describing the financial crisis-to-be with a fair amount of detail and specificity before it happened: So, … Continue reading →
What good is intelligence if you can’t/won’t use it?
The US says it warned Indian authorities that terrorists from Pakistan would be arriving by water and targeting Mumbai. This sounds like a “good news/bad news” story: it’s reassuring the US knew that much, distressing that India chose to ignore … Continue reading →
About blessings and enemies
Blogger Yaacov Ben Moshe is an essayist whose thoughts are well worth reading. In this post, he ruminates on Mumbai and its significance, as well as his rage at the following bumper sticker, which he saw recently on a car … Continue reading →
Walmart stampede dynamics
No doubt you are aware that the title of this post is not a metaphor for a buying frenzy, but a description of something quite literal. At the Valley Stream, NY, Walmart, on the day after Thanksgiving, an employee was … Continue reading →
The curve of an Instalanche
An Instalanche—that’s a link from blogger Glenn Reynolds, who’s otherwise known as Instapundit—can drive a huge amount of traffic to a blog. Glenn’s own blog traffic hovers somewhere in the vicinity of 300,000 hits a day (let me spell that … Continue reading →
Mumbai timeline
For those who requested a timeline of the Mumbai attack, this is the best I’ve been able to find so far.
Continue reading →The Mumbai policemen who refused to shoot
Photographer Sebastian D’Souza, who was able to take a photo of one of the armed terrorists in the train station in Mumbai, also described the events he witnessed there. One puzzling—not to mention profoundly troubling—aspect of his report was the … Continue reading →
Whatever happened to respecting your elders?
And here I thought the Japanese were supposed to be one of those peoples who revered the elderly, with a culture that featured exquisite politeness. I guess that’s all changed now, at least if we consider the evidence offered by … Continue reading →
Terrorism: the “I’s” have it
Rule of thumb in fighting terrorist attacks: if the Israelis offer advice, take it. Israeli spokesmen say that in Mumbai, Indian troops stormed the hotels too soon, without gathering enough intelligence first. There is no country on earth with the … Continue reading →
I’ve got…
…an idea for a new source of income for myself. I’m gonna sue em both. And lest you think the linked article was a mere Onion fantasy, there’s a real-life precedent.
Continue reading →Mumbai terror
The terror in Mumbai angers me, but it doesn’t surprise. Any shock that this sort of thing can be planned and executed with such vicious intent went away long ago, on 9/11. Perhaps even before that. We don’t have many … Continue reading →