Update: So far nothing has been found at the nuclear plan (though the search continues) so the alert levels have been lowered somewhat. – end update Two bits of news out of Sweden today are quite disturbing. The first is the discovery of a sizeable bomb outside a bank in central Sweden: A bomb was […]

Three days of fighting between local tribesman, against an al Qaeda stronghold seems to tell me there is some very important reason al Qaeda is holding strong and taking the beating they apparently are taking: Fighting between local and Uzbek militants escalated in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, as the death toll from three days of […]

I knew Governor Blanco of Louisiana was a disaster during Katrina, but I never knew how much until I read this in a local paper – and her screw ups seem to have started from day one and dominoed from there. Her failure to take quick action to remove the tolls from the Crescent City […]