Wolf Howling: romulus and remus

Friday, August 22, 2008

An Heir To Romulus And Remus

The painting above is Reuben's "Romulus and Remus." It memorializes the famous story of two brothers nursed through their infancy by a she-wolf. The brothers are legendary for founding the city of Rome. Perhaps the story is less apocryphal than might at first appear.

Reuters is reporting that a newborn infant was abandoned by her teenage mother shortly after birth. The newborn was left naked, exposed to the elements in the Argentinian winter. The child was found today, warm and healthy, amongst a dog and her own litter of puppies.

Interesting News From Around the Web

I agree with Tom Friedman this morning: "It’s clear that the surge by U.S. troops has really dampened violence in Iraq. So don’t we now need a surge in diplomacy to finish the job?" And I would take it a step further. We need a real bi-partisan effort now to capitalize on Iraq's pax Americana, both diplomatically and with aid. But see here - tough to do when the majority party wants nothing more than to surrender.

Herd Journalism - all the major news papers reporting on the positive developments in Iraq. "Taken together, these stories amount to a consensus that the surge of additional American troops and the counterinsurgency strategy adopted by General David Petraeus has worked - and worked brilliantly." Somebody tell Reid . . . anybody following the global warming arguments know that once a consensus has been achieved, the question has been answered beyond rebuttal.

What utter idiot signed off on this. "The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments."

Sometimes its just impossible to catch a break. "Top United Nations’ scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they wildly overstated the size and the spread of the AIDS epidemic, but that all the millions of people who don’t actually have AIDS will soon drown in the rising tide caused by man-made global climate change."

The cave where Romulus and Remus suckled at the tits of a she-wolf has been found.

The problems of policing, crime and punishment in a war zone.

Soros goes Horowitz hunting.