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Cuz: The Times – Gaddafi’s foreign minister has flown into Britain to sensationally defect from regime tonight Huh.

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Have you seen the price of diesel lately? I think I can make it till Wednesday. So: The French air force seemed to have kicked some serious ass today in Libya. It’s nice to see them demonstrating their abilities for the world. Hate seeing them lumped in with the rest of the European elf-n-safety forces. [...]

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First I’ve heard of this: The Corner – Mark Steyn: Dead Jews Is No News

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I think the lesson here might be, “Lay off the US for a moment because it might be your third-rate little backwater hellhole that suddenly gets strafed by attack helicopters.” Telegraph Blogs – Barack Obama’s message to Libyans: sorry, the US has intervention fatigue

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Well, this is depressing: WSJ – The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured [...]

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Somebody once worked for a man she said was the worst kind of misogynist: A gay misogynist. He didn’t even need women for sex. I’m reminded of that right now. I think most politicians hate people (when counting on a global scale, that is), but at least they need to make an occasional effort to [...]

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And for much of it, all I could think of was this: Horrible, I know. But I’m very tired today and obviously it’s affecting my brain. The rest of the movie was good, but I thought the end was a little lame.

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The Times – David Aaronovitch: This is no Robin Hood. They were our secrets<br/> The Assangeists don’t trust the State to run foreign or defence policy. So why do they trust it to run everything else? Let me make a quick observation about how, in this supposed war, contradictory positions are adopted. We have Tea [...]

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Fox News – Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the [Stuxnet] worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran. And what they’ve all found, says Sean McGurk, the [...]

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Read the whole thing: Wil Shipley – Q&A with TSA Chairman John Pistole Attention grabber: Which brings me to this question: If you hired a security guard to watch your house, and 10 years later your neighbors said, “Hey, several times now dudes have tried to steal your shit, but we came over and stopped [...]

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What the what is going on in Iran: The Corner – Daniel Foster: Curiouser and Curiouser in Iran How do you stop Iran’s nuclear program when diplomacy has failed and the use conventional military force is, at the moment, unworkable? Sometimes you have to get creative. Enter Stuxnet — the little computer worm that has [...]

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I have two videos about New Jersey. The first one I’ve had open for a few days now and been meaning to post because it’s really quite good: Mike Marino on an Italian President: The second one isn’t funny. It made me a little teary, actually. But I found this right after re-watching the first [...]

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Mmm: Wheat & Weeds – Could Be Anybody Isn’t NPR hiring?

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Independent Blogs – Yet more reasons why the Iraq war was right, by John Rentoul (Chief political commentator for their Sunday paper? Seriously?) Read the whole thing. Don’t read the comments.

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The President visits Ground Zero, on this day in ancient history, September 14, 2001. Statements from primary sources and video at the link.

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