Oh look, Reuters has an item:

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday rejected suggestions that Washington was trying to edge out the United Nations as leader of the international relief effort f

The extreme left has thus far not been very succesful in the desperate search for a way to blame the horrific number of deaths resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis on the Bush admin

Many linked to this Washington Post article from yesterday:

The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment yesterday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean

Wretchard the Cat's got another of his deep thought pieces up, this one about the evolving role of blogs in the world.

Rather's defeat at the hands of Buckhead was not accidental. It was inevitabl

I just tossed fifty bucks to the American Red Cross at Amazon. I urge you to do the same, or to donate elsewhere. Amazon has reached $2 million thus far.

I can't help feeling a bit like Judge Reinh

Here are a few pictures of the ice storm whose remains continue to wreck havoc in the midwestern US. I understand that there are still people in Ohio without power. But as we've just been reminded, na

AP's membership has decided what the top ten news stories of 2004 were. Here's number one:

1. U.S. ELECTION: After vanquishing Howard Dean, John Edwards and other Democratic rivals, Kerry seemed to

Reuters:

Egypt said on Wednesday holding Iraqi elections in stages would create divisions between Iraq's religious and ethnic communities and split the country. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sai

Tim Blair has moved to new digs and is getting right down to business with the Michael Moore personality. "The days of trying to move the Democratic Party to the right are over," says Moore. As I wrot

I grabbed the code I wrote for the JavaScript-heavy Stack interface that I was using at the old blogspot blog and brought it over here. If you want to look at it, play with it, criticize it, shoot spi

From The Independent:

Italian anti-globalisation activists helped themselves to a gourmet meal, leaving nothing but a thank you note telling the restaurant owner he was the victim of "collateral da

Ann Althouse, channeling my thoughts once again:

[Nancy Pelosi on Fox News Sunday this morning] looks perpetually surprised and startled. Just looking at her, I find myself raising my own eyebrows

Enough already with Ukraine- the Weblog Awards polls are up and running. I didn't make the final cut in the Best Blog Design category. #&$@!

I looked at most of the nominees earlier and found a cou

From the Washington Post:

A federal appeals court yesterday prohibited the government from withholding funds from colleges and universities that refuse to cooperate with military recruiters because