This letter is from a Sri Lankan student asking for your help:
As I am certain you are aware of, thousands of people have been killed
and nearly a million people displaced due to the brutal tsunami’s that
struck Sri Lanka Sunday morning. Many Sri Lankan’s are shocked, devastated and left with barely nothing apart from the clothes […]

That is the title of a piece by John Podhoretz at the New York Post online edition. Referring to various opinion leaders, Podhoretz writes:

They are using this cataclysm as little more than cheap debate fodder about the nature and character of the United States, its president and its citizens.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell found […]

President Bush was accused by former International Development Secretary Clare Short of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster. She insisted that the role should be left to the U.N.

“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming […]

Washinginton Times reports that the death toll in Indonesia could reach 400,000! That would make the total death toll easily over half a million!
That would make it second only to the Shensi quake of 1556!
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ABC News named bloggers its People of the Year but for examples of its influence on politics they primarily highlight left leaning blog activity. I doubt that they are unaware of other A List bloggers like Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, and Powerline (Time Magazine’s Blog of the Year) or its coverage of the RatherGate incident. […]

Martin Kettle over at the Guardian has a piece entitled “How can religious people explain something like this?” He is referring to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia.

As with previous earthquakes, any explanation of this latest one poses us a sharp intellectual choice. Either there is an entirely natural explanation for it, […]

Todd Pearson points out that “The importance of blogs as an information source continues to grow.”
The New York Times has made note of the efforts in the blogosphere to help with the aftermath of the Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami disaster. Some of the best information and most current information I’ve been […]

This blog entry is about a comment from a blog posting calling into question Intelligent Design (ID) theory. The comment was in response to the claim that Evolution is based on fact and passes the falsifiability test whereas neither holds for ID theory.
The direct claim to which this comment was in response was:
“Yes, […]

Here’s a tsunami news blog set up by bloggers from the affected region. Lots of links to charities that accept online donations.
This is an incredible clearing house of information.
News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.
Also see more information on the tsunami.
See also my response to an essay at the Guardian on earthquakes, […]

Knock Knock Knock
“Neo, the Blogosphere has you!”
Either you have a blog or the blogoshpere has you!
Fortune.com (January 10, 2005 issue) has an article entitled “Why There’s No Escaping the Blog” by By David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth. The subtitle is: “Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a […]

Phyllis Schlafly at TownHall.com opens her article with the following:

The most censored speech in the United States today is not flag-burning, pornography or the press. The worst censors are those who prohibit classroom criticism of the theory of evolution.
A Chinese scholar observed, “In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you […]

“A country that makes a film like ‘Star Wars’ deserves to rule the world.”
— Philip Adams, former chairman of the Australian Film Commission
David R. Sands writes in his Washington Times article

Love it, hate it, embrace it, deny it, American power, American influence and American values are the defining features of […]

Where is your growth market? What does your target audience really want? Are you researching the top hits or best sellers for your industry and primarily offering those to your customers? If you are a bricks-and-mortar (only) business, this probably describes, defines, and confines you. If you are an online business, […]

Magnitude 9.0 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA 2004 December 26 00:58:50 UTC Largest on earth in 40 years.
Death toll from Asian quake, tidal waves passes 13,700

“All the planet is vibrating” from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy’s National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said […]

“Happy Holidays”, or even the parody “Happy RamaHannuKwansMas”, is more acceptable than “Merry Christmas” if you believe those who strive to take everything Christian out of celebrations surrounding December 25th (is that P.C. enough for you?). They would have us extract nativity scenes, songs mentioning Jesus or any other religious themes, and be left […]

The liberal mindset of uber-inclusiveness may finally be stretching the limits of even relativistic possibilities. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Democrat party is apparently Rethinking Abortion:

After long defining itself as an undisputed defender of abortion rights, the Democratic Party is suddenly locked in an internal struggle over whether to redefine its position […]

In an article in today’s Washington Post, Terry M. Neal writes in his Talking Points column:

There was never any doubt how the good people of Utah County, Utah, would vote on Nov. 2. It has long prided itself as a bastion of conservatism and family values. And so when voters were given the opportunity to […]

The United Nations, who was supposed to help the victims of murderous, brutal dictatorships has instead inflicted more brutality upon them, covered it up, and tried to obstruct investigations into these atrocities. “They are at least good for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid,” the response usually goes when someone charges that the U.N. has outlived […]

“Keep the Government out of the bedroom” is a clarion call of the Gay Rights Movement. The implication, since Roe, is that Christian conservatives want to legislate what is and is not allowed in the privacy of one’s own home. One commenter to Amy Sullivan’s recent Political Animal blog stand in for Kevin […]

Is Senator Hillary Clinton really moving to the right of many Republicans on the issue of immigration?

Her record in the Senate just does not match her rhetoric.

It appears as though she is more conservative than President Bush on immigration. Tony Blankley even praises her for showing such conviction when other in Congress shy away […]