No Connection Between Sadam Hussein and al-Aqada?

Take a trip down memory lane via Powerline:



More proof that the Democrats are engaging in revisionist history.

Comparing Zawahiri vs. Democratic talking points

Comparing Zawahiri vs. Democratic talking points

Kinda hard to tell the difference...

Seeing the Unseen, Part 1

Another excellent essay from Bill Whittle. A must read!

SEEING THE UNSEEN, Part 1

Is Israel using Chemical Weapons?

Of course not! But the Tin Foil Hat Brigrade would like you think that. Chickenhawk exposes the lie.

War in the Middle East

There's war in the Middle East. Our prayers are with Israel. For the best comprehensive coverage, check out Pajamas Media.

AP Still Peddling DDT Myths

Here's a great article from JunkScience writer Steven Milloy about the long discredited myths about DDT.

Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High

One of the most notorious DDT “factoids” is that it thinned bird egg shells. But a 1970 study published in Pesticides Monitoring Journal reported that DDT residues in bird egg shells were not correlated with thinning. Numerous other feeding studies on caged birds indicate that DDT isn’t associated with egg shell thinning.

In the few studies claiming to implicate DDT as the cause of thinning, the birds were fed diets that were either low in calcium, included other known egg shell-thinning substances, or that contained levels of DDT far in excess of levels that would be found in the environment – and even then, the massive doses produced much less thinning than what had been found in egg shells in the wild.

So why was it banned in 1972?

Why was banning DDT so important to environmentalists? Charles Wurster, a senior scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund – the activist group that led the charge against DDT – told the Seattle Times (Oct. 5, 1969) that, “If the environmentalists win on DDT, they will achieve a level of authority they have never had before. In a sense, much more is at stake than DDT.” Banning DDT wasn’t about birds. It was about power. The sooner the record on DDT is set straight, the sooner the environmentalists’ ill-gotten “authority” will be seen for what it is.

The Four Horsemen Gallop Through the Horn of Africa

There is an excelent article at The Gates of Vienna on the drought in Africa.

The climate in Africa isn’t the problem. Drought recurs there periodically, as it does in many places. It is predictable, and can be dealt with. Oklahoma sometimes experiences severe drought, but nobody holds telethons to benefit the starving children of Muskogee, crouched in the dusty shadows of their parents’ double-wides. Somehow the cruel exploitative capitalist society of the United States carries us through these tough times.

The problem in Africa is – as it has been ever since the departure of the European colonial powers – corrupt, tyrannical, and unaccountable government. Even when Oxfam gets its lorryloads of food into the devastated areas, most of it is likely to be siphoned off in “taxes”, bribes, kickbacks, and outright expropriation by the thugs and petty despots who control the affairs of the region. Lacking the rule of law and pluralist institutions, the Horn of Africa has repeatedly failed to develop a robust productive economy which can sustain its people through the inevitable fluctuation of natural cycles.

Read the whole thing...

Mary McCarthy's CIA woes

So what do Mary McCarthy, Dana Priest, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Richard Clarke, Sandy Berger , Gen. Anthony Zinni and Fidel Castro all have in common? Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs plays Connect the Dots. The list just keeps getting longer!