That's good news. An interesting line from Reuters: "In freezing rain, the hostages were ferried quickly out of the theater, many to hospital and away from waiting journalists." Poor Reuters.

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The news headlines from two news agencies that are fed into my Yahoo! home page read a lot like a multi-front WWIII.

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Rifle in Sniper Suspects' Car Is Murd

Eric Raymond, master of his domain over at Armed and Dangerous, recently asked for web geeks out there to come up with a graphical button to promote the still evolving Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto. I ste

This dialogue between Abu Al-Jihadi, an influential Islamic activist of indeterminate nationality with thousands of followers, and Fay West, a well-respected American intellectual who holds some chair

A piece by Demosthenes rebuts the observation made by some that French opposition (so far) to attacking Iraq is based on French oil interests in that country. Demosthenes says about the claim:

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That's former President Jimmy Carter. Congratulations to him. The timing of this award is significant however. The Norwegian organization is sending a message to Americans: this is the kind of US pres