By Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 2, 2008

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Stung by U.S. allegations that elements in its premier spy agency colluded with Islamic militants in last month’s bombing of the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistan acknowledged Friday that there “probably” were Taliban sympathizers within the ranks of its powerful intelligence establishment.

I read stuff like this, and I can only shake my head in dismay.

The Fastest Girl in Kabul

Sadly, it seems that protests against the anti-Church sentiments of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy has most likely led to the abandonment of the filming of the trilogy. Calls to boycott the first film, The Golden Compass, led to di

Update: News reports and his family attest that he is still alive but struggling. Please keep him in your prayers. [09:34 Pacific Time.]

So last year, we forgot to renew our domain name and the site went down for a few days while we sorted that out. This year, sad to say, we forgot again (okay, I forgot), so we went down again.

But hey, we’re back, so, you know, no harm, no foul…

Right?

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on Wednesday, June 4, before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The speech comes the day after he secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination and become the first African-American candidate for president. In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, Obama tries to allay doubts that some Jewish voters have expressed about his candidacy. He talks about his great-uncle’s service in World War II, as a member of the infantry division that first liberated a Nazi concentration camp.

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By KARL E. MEYER
Published: June 17, 2008

Michael Savage at the UK Independent has asked Is it time to talk to Al-Qaida? in which he compares them to the IRA in Northern Ireland and says:

           While the Bush Administration has, from time to time, done things which are – ahem – ethically questionable, it has usually made at least a half-hearted attempt to cover them with a veneer of legality.
           Occasionally, however, it will throw aside any such pretensions. Take Sami Al-Arian, a man who should never have been imprisoned in the first place, who has spent the last five years in jail under conditions decried by Amnesty International as “gratuitously punitive,” whose prison term ended on April 11th, and who is nevertheless still being held behind bars.

Yesterday, I was riding on the public bus, on my way to visit a very good friend of mine, and a pair of Mormon guys got on the bus. They were wearing the white shirts with the name tags—missionaries. One of them came back and sat near me, and started up a conversation with me. Now, I am from the Southern United States, the land of Christian evangelism, so I immediately knew what his goal was. We started by talking about the weather and the landscape of Boston and Massachusetts versus that of Utah (where he was from) and the South.