It truly sounds as if a decades-long search for a serial killer is definitely at an end: The man arrested on suspicion of being the BTK serial killer has confessed to at least six slayings and might be responsible for as many as 13 - including one that could carry the death penalty, a source close to the investigation said Sunday. Investigators, who suspect Dennis L. Rader in … [Read more...] about Wichita’s BTK Killer Confesses

Items selected are NOT limited to one viewpoint. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of The Moderate Voice. PARTISAN, POLITICAL BLOGOSPHERE RANKINGS ranked by My DD. IS THE BIN LADEN NAME REALLY PROTECTED AS A BRAND NAME? Attorney Ronald Coleman gives you the REAL legal situation under U.S. law, if you're one of those hoping to use the attractive Bin Laden … [Read more...] about Around The ‘Sphere

I've got about 45 gmail invitations I can give out. Let me know if you want one. First come first serve. … [Read more...] about Do You Want G-Mail?

Here are some links from the Feb. 18 Watcher of Weasels Council post contest. Winning Council link: Sundries' Shack's Kofi To World. Winning Non Council link: American Digest's Red Like Ward = Black Like Me. A high number of votes also went to Alpha Patriot's The Complexity of W's Middle Eastern Policy and to New Sisyphus's The End of the Cold War: Testing the Left's Central … [Read more...] about Watcher Of Weasels Readfest

Summitry does have its limits, but the latest action by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and its timing sets something of a record: Iran and Russia ignored U.S. objections and signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday that is key to bringing Tehran's first reactor online by mid-2006. The long-delayed deal, signed at the heavily guarded Bushehr nuclear facility in southern … [Read more...] about Putin Does His Thing Anyway

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We're Guest Blogging on Dean's World this weekend. If you're new to this site, this means we do all of our posting on Dean's World during this period. We do the same crappy insightful posts there that we do here. Dean Esmay has me back there very weekend, despite reader demands. Regular posts resume here no later than Monday morning, although we'll often resume posts by 9 … [Read more...] about We’re Guest Blogging This Weekend

Strangely enough, the U.N. refused to even apply the term "genocide" in their latest briefing, reports CNN: The United States described the Sudanese Darfur campaign as "genocide," but the United Nations has shied away from using the term, which compels specific reactions under international law. Genocide is legally defined by international conventions as the "intent to … [Read more...] about The United Nations & Sudan Genocide

I frequently visit Jim Peacock's edu-blog Zero Intelligence, where he focuses an alert eye on the follies of schools' disciplinary policies (the site is named after Zero Tolerance discipline). Kudos to Jim for having the courage to create a site with such a tightly-knit topic of discussion... and to enjoy such success with it! Here, Mr. Peacock exposes an especially … [Read more...] about Violent Teacher Unpunished

Adorable little blogging superstar Matt Yglesias (heretofore known as "Yggy") has an interesting essay on the split between "anti-state" and "anti-Left" righties since the Bush administration started Greating its own Society. As he notes, the state and the Left used to be the same until about 10 years ago:The National Review hasn't gone in for Weekly Standard-style ideological … [Read more...] about We hate the State at any rate

...when not only is our private information for sale without our explicit consent, but the buyers of that information are not vetted properly by the sellers and prove to be criminals? This incident raises a series of questions that merit discussion. What is private information and what is public information? What permissions should be required for selling that information … [Read more...] about Can we really be said to have any privacy at all…

A very sharp, pointy satirical piece provides an opportunity for some mental exercise. … [Read more...] about Satire and the well-exercised mind

Pennywit makes a proposal and asks for comments. You can't say he's not thinking outside the box. … [Read more...] about Outside the box

Hi again; it's Greg Piper from The Smoking Room, doing my part to steal Joe's audience help a blogger out (or "blogga," if you're down with that). Less than a month after Iraq's election, Iraqi kids are talking about concepts like "freedom, democracy, [and] respecting others' opinion" as part of a "children's parliament" project started last August. They made a few … [Read more...] about Much more important than lame American essay contests

The winning results are in for the weekly Watcher of Weasels Council linkfest. You can see the full list of posts here. A reminder that you don't have to be a Council member to submit a post. The winning posts were was Little Red Blog's Waiting and Gates of Vienna's Co-oping the Jihad. … [Read more...] about Some Winning Posts

You should see some Guest Bloggers on this site today - a day when TMV will be travelling extensively. He'll do a few posts but will be out of pocket much of the day. But there will be great Guest Blogger posts...so check back often! … [Read more...] about Guest Bloggers Today

The George Bush and Vladimir Putin Show debuted yesterday in the form of a press conference following their landmark three hour meeting in the Slovakian capital of Bratislav — and beneath the smiles there was some tension. And perhaps some relief. The reason: Bush did what he had to do (keep his relationship with Russia's political honcho intact despite tentions of … [Read more...] about Bush & Putin: An Uneasy Alliance Survives Amid Tension

It turns out that there is a mini-war raging within the GOP right now over Social Security reform — a kind of war for the GOP's soul, between the issue-oriented libertarians and the more nuts-and-bolts-do-what-it-takes-to-win political operatives who many believe have been unleashed by the White House. At issue is the highly controversial campaign by pro-Bush-plan … [Read more...] about Social Security Reform: Confrontation Or Coalition?

Here's good news for merchandisers everywhere: Swiss officials have ruled to protect the Bin Laden name as a brand name so that that only Osama bin Laden's Geneva-based half-brother can use the family name as trademark. This means that if products appear some day with the highly marketable Bin Laden brand name, you'll KNOW it's from the real family. Not that businessman … [Read more...] about Bin Laden: Now A Protected Brand Name

We often say it: the "Indepundit" Citizen Smash has long been one of our favorite websites. It's written by guy who made world news when he doggedly blogged from the field as part of 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom. He then continued Lt. Smash as Citizen Smash, a conservative-leaning (but not always) blog. He truly deserves the subname of his blog "The IndePundit" and we assign … [Read more...] about A Veteran’s Special Operation Thank You