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Dr Jim West » SOTS Day 2- Morning Session
Posted 24 minutes ago
Three papers were read this morning.  Professor Geller’s was particularly interesting and I think Bob Cargill would have enjoyed it a lot as it dealt with divination texts in Babylon and Qurman.  The gist- priests compiled divinatory texts for the use of the Monarch who then could choose the right person for the job in his government.  The scrolls at ... [Link]

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog » Sullivan on Panetta
Posted 43 minutes ago
POST: Panetta At CIA, By Andrew Sullivan, 05 Jan 2009 Couldn't agree more with Andrew here. Panetta is a real mensch. [Link]

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog » Gates' steady hand
Posted 43 minutes ago
ARTICLE: Pentagon Chief Sees Opportunities In Russia and the War on Terrorism, By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, January 5, 2009; Page A09 Another great reason for keeping Gates on: he views Russia with an un-hysterical eye, and realizes the rebranding potential that should prove useful to us in the years ahead. [Link]

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog » One scare-the-hell-out-of-the-America-public department was enough
Posted 43 minutes ago
ARTICLE: "Man-Made Disaster: Five years on, the Department of Homeland security is still a catastrophe," by Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic, 24 December 2008. The basic bit: The only way of calming people down is political leadership that puts the terrorist threat in perspective. But, despite efforts by Chertoff to avoid the color-coded hysteria that defined the department in its ... [Link]

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog » This is how we do it
Posted 45 minutes ago
ARTICLE: "Behind Caterpillar's Big Scoop in China: Patience, persistence, and transfer of technology yield a coveted acquisition," by Dexter Roberts, BusinessWeek, 22 December 2008. Caterpillar has made a lot of money off China's infrastructure build-out so far, and aims to capture a bigger chunk of that growing pie in the future. So it basically takes the advice I've been peddling ... [Link]

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog » Save the economy
Posted 47 minutes ago
PRESENTATION: 10 Commandments for the President Elect - to Save the US Economy, By Juan Enriquez, Pop!Tech 2008 This is a great presentation by Juan Enriquez, with whom I shared a stage at Pop!Tech a few years back. Worth listening to the entire 30 minutes. Very sensible stuff on the financial crisis and how we realistically move forward. The obvious ... [Link]

Lailnet.com » New Lail blog
Posted 67 minutes ago
New Lail blog. This one seems to have some relationship to something called Back2Back Ministries. Maybe they'll post a comment. [Link]

View From The Porch » You don't want a Constitution, you want a Magic Wand.
Posted 74 minutes ago
CrankyProf links to a particularly egregious example of ThereOughttaBeALaw-ism wherein one "Happy Hospitalist" pines for... are you ready for this? A federal ban on smoking in public.Not surprisingly, I am against this idea, and rather vehemently. The reason, however, is not what you think. See, my objection to the whole scheme centers around one particular keyword, and that keyword is ... [Link]

Instapundit » MY POST LAST NIGHT on the 10″ Asus netbook produced an email from reader James Flanagan, who loves h…
Posted 77 minutes ago
MY POST LAST NIGHT on the 10″ Asus netbook produced an email from reader James Flanagan, who loves his 10″ Samsung N10: “The key selling point for me was the large keyboard, which feels like a ‘real’ laptop. And unlike my ‘regular’ laptop, never an issue about whether to pack it or not. Thanks for all your great netbook coverage.” ... [Link]

Instapundit » HOPE AND CHANGE! Pelosi Moves to Silence Minority By Erasing Long-Standing House Rules….
Posted 81 minutes ago
HOPE AND CHANGE! Pelosi Moves to Silence Minority By Erasing Long-Standing House Rules. [Link]

Instapundit » JULES CRITTENDEN OFFERS advice to the Taliban on how to refine their information-warfare techniques….
Posted 86 minutes ago
JULES CRITTENDEN OFFERS advice to the Taliban on how to refine their information-warfare techniques. [Link]

Random Mumblings » Journalism group calls on EPA to quit slow-walking release of facts in TN spill
Posted 94 minutes ago
The Society of Environmental Journalists is urging the Environmental Protection Agency be more transparent and release all its data regarding the TVA coal sludge disaster in Roane County, Tennessee.Of concern, notes James Brugger, a board member of the journalism group and a reporter at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., is that it took EPA 11 days to release its first ... [Link]

Instapundit » REPORTING on the RNC Chair debate….
Posted 112 minutes ago
REPORTING on the RNC Chair debate. [Link]

Rocky Top Talk » Tennessee Volunteers vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs: which is falling faster?
Posted 112 minutes ago
It's little wonder that when the Tennessee Volunteers lost 83-74 to the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the Old Spice Classic earlier this season Tennessee fans barely noticed. After all, it was November 30, 2008, and it was not only the end of the football season but we were drawing the curtain on the Fulmer Era and eagerly anticipating the new one. ... [Link]

Instapundit » HEH: Bill Clinton: CIA Pick Panetta Can Keep a Secret….
Posted 115 minutes ago
HEH: Bill Clinton: CIA Pick Panetta Can Keep a Secret. [Link]

Instapundit » FROM LIAR TO GENIUS: Harry Reid on General Petraeus. At least he’s caught on to the fact that the …
Posted 116 minutes ago
FROM LIAR TO GENIUS: Harry Reid on General Petraeus. At least he’s caught on to the fact that the Surge was more about different tactics than just more troops, something he could have learned by reading InstaPundit a year ago. [Link]

Instapundit » SO WHEN IT HAPPENS, boo. Loudly and lustily….
Posted 2 hours ago
SO WHEN IT HAPPENS, boo. Loudly and lustily. [Link]

Instapundit » HERE’S A BIT MORE on the Brandon Darby story….
Posted 2 hours ago
HERE’S A BIT MORE on the Brandon Darby story. [Link]

Left of the Dial » One Hundred Grand
Posted 3 hours ago
I started this blog four years ago this month and today I’m noticing I’m hitting the 100,000 visitor mark. That’s cool and everything, but the last six months haven’t been, um, active around here. As I have said before, I blame Twitter. I think I’ve gone from blogging to micro-blogging. [Link]

Dr. Helen » No title
Posted 4 hours ago
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at the Why HomeSchool blog. My post on the double standard at school between boys and girls after sex in the stairwell is there in the section "Why people homeschool." [Link]