Interesting News From Around the Web

The big news of the day, Chavez loses his bid for dictatorial powers in Venezuela by democratic vote. Fausta’s Blog has the story. And here is a WaPo article on the loss. Given Hugo’s past, its amazing the official results of this vote came out as they did. So whither now, Hugo? Daniel Duquenal at PJM ponders the possibilities.


Not all putatitve dictators for life received bad news yesterday. Putin’s party won handily in Russia amid charges of large scale fraud.

Sudan has pardoned the British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, who caused untold damage to the delicate sensibilities of Salafists by allowing her class to name Muhammad’s teddy bear Muhammad.

“Last month, the Senate had to choose how to spend $400 million: health insurance for 173,000 children, or 1,056 pork projects. Pork won, 68-26.” It seems the Democrats’ promises to clean up Washington have not quite panned out. Unfortunately, this is a bipartisan malignancy. Suicidal Republicans desperately need to clean up their act on this one, also.

Men are simple creatures. Women often ask: ‘What underwear do you like to see me in?’ and the usual answer is: ‘Any underwear.’ Unless your relationship has been going so long that you have sex only on special occasions, such as the installation of a new Pope, then most men are just pathetically grateful to see women partially unclothed.” More hardhitting journalism from my favorite tabloid, the Daily Mail

France is “stunned by rioter’s savagery.” The left blames the rioting on social injustice. Sarkozy is of a different view.

Instapundit links to a fascinating post on one of the more corrupt practices in our legal system, judge shopping in politicly charged cases.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth by the usual suspects, it is now known that a noose and threatening letter left at a Baltimore Fire Department station two weeks ago was left by an African American employee who was having problems in his job.

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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.

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