Yet another bad news story involving Syria: A Chinese news agency reports that Israel has proof Syria was involved in a recent attack there and is briefing European leaders: JERUSALEM, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) — Israeli Military Intelligence insisted Monday that Israel has proof of Syrian's involvement in last Friday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, in which five Israelis were … [Read more...] about Israel Reportedly Offers Proof Of Syrian Involvement In Attacks

Yes, you learn something new every day. I did from this True Facts list. A few tidbits from this long list: Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a … [Read more...] about Funny Facts

The struggle escalated in Iraq today as a suicide bomber killed 105 people -- one of the biggest outrages there so far -- and wounded 130. This was the single bloodiest attack since Sadaam Hussein fell in April 2003. Reuters: The bomber drove a car into a crowd of people queuing outside a government building in the town of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of the capital. Many … [Read more...] about Suicide Bomber in Iraq Kills More than 100

Is it just me, or was Chris Rock just OK — nothing to rave about — as Oscar host? The advance billing was that Rock, as a "cutting edge" comedian, was going to open a new chapter in the Oscars by taking comedy yet another step into the 21st Century. There have been comedic shifts before: Johnny Carson replaced Bob Hope as emcee, signalling a generational change … [Read more...] about Notes On The Oscars And Chris Rock

...at a blog representing yet another sign of how the blog revolution is spreading far and wide. It's this blog by Jerry Brown, Oakland's high profile mayor and former governor of California. In a way you have to wonder what took him so long: his personality is perfectly suited to doing a lively blog. Our only complaint so far is that his posts have been so limited. But it is … [Read more...] about Take A Peek….

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