Interesting News From Around The Web

The UN is decreasing its estimate of the number of cases of AIDS by more than 40%. "Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS." I wonder how many trillions will be spent and how many lives will be adversely effected before we hear a similar mea culpa on global warming.

Iraqis are motivated to join the inurgency more by Ben Franklin than Bin Laden.

Harry Reid's deadly perfidy: "If Congress does not come through with a supplemental bill President Bush will sign, money for defeating the largest killers of American personnel in the war on terror will run out Dec. 1, a senior official said here today."

Some thoughts on the worse than worthless UN Human Rights Council and some alternative ideas. "My hope is that President Bush will consider establishing a council of democracies outside of the U.N. system that could meet regularly to truly monitor, examine and expose human rights abuses around the globe."

A woman of 102 has stripped off for a nude calendar in aid of her village football club.


There are a lot of good posts on the Second Amendment right to bear arms linked at Instapundit. See here, here, hear, hear, and here.


Eco-porn, Eurofadism and cowboy diplomacy from a hilarious post at Jules Crittenden.