John McCain as Gandalf?
Victor Davis Hanson makes some reasonable points in his op ed urging conservatives not to "jump ship" on John McCain. On balance, I think McCain isn't nearly as good as...Hank Paulson as Fundraising Headliner?
I was just invited to a fundraising dinner for the US-China Education Trust and FY Chang Foundation honoring Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson, Jr. The dinner is Friday November 14th. All I can say is best of luck. ... Times on John McCain as Self-Styled Knot of Fictional Characters
Watchmen flew off the shelf after Dark Knight came out, prompting its publisher DC Comics to print—as of August 13—an additional 900000 copies. One wonders whether John McCain bought one of those. Perhaps he should, since the masked ... Whale Oil as Space Lubricant: Better than Anything We Can Create?
The Big Cheese behind TreeHugger, Graham Hill, hit the Arctic as part of Cape Farewell's 2008 Disko Bay expedition to witness the direct environmental effects of climate change. In a science research boat, he traveled alongside over 40 ... Books as History
This chapter considers books as icons and the iconography of books. It looks at how books have been used in works of art and how works of art have been made from books. It considers the contribution of design, of illustration, ... Rape as a Weapon of Warfare: An emerging UW scholar expands the ...
Geraldine O’Mahoney, a doctoral candidate in political science, can barely remember working as an auxiliary nurse in Tanzania. Not that her time there wasn’t remarkable. On the contrary, the experience was chilling-so chilling, in fact, ... Britain Props Up Banks as Fed Leads Funding Effort
After a whirl of emergency weekend meetings on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at rescuing the global financial system, Britain began propping up three banks with taxpayer funds on Monday while the Federal Reserve and three European ... Re: Re: Ayers as Obama's Ghost Writer
Gee, Jon, I guess it's too bad that other than the Cashill post, I've done no other work on Obama's background. I'll try to "do better than that." Re: Ayers as Obama's Ghost Writer?!?
As I said, I resisted reading Cashill's analysis for a long time -- and he's not the first to advance the idea that Obama did not write his book -- because I didn't want to be accused of wading into what could be taken as nutter stuff. ... For peat’s sake: A point of no return as alarming as the tundra ...
Most of the world’s wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests. Wikipedia notes, “Under the right conditions, peat is the earliest stage in the formation of coal.” The Reuters article on the study ...
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