Ferguson On Revolution

Harvard’s Niall Ferguson talks strategy and revolution in Newsweek: Only the hopelessly naive imagine that 30-something Google executives will emerge as the new leaders of the Arab world, aided by their social network of Facebook friends. The far more likely outcome—as in past revolutions—is that power will pass to the best organized, most radical, and [...]

Newsweek’s Newest

  excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s column in Newsweek: These were Obama’s words back in June 2009: America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles—principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Those lines will come back to haunt Obama [...]

Girl Scout Handbook – 1920

    Free Google eBook: Scouting For Girls – 1920  

Photogs At Risk In Egypt

  excerpts from New York Times: Ron Haviv :  …there was a real presence of support for Mubarak. One of the demonstrations was quite large and seemed to have a variety of different Egyptians: women, children, old men, young men, et cetera, et cetera. I know it’s been reported that a number of those people [...]

Terrorist Found Guilty In Denmark

Denmark has found Mohamed Geele, a Somali man, guilty of terrorism for using an ax to break into the home of Kurt Westergaard, a political cartoonist who had drawn Mohammed.  While Geele was attempting to break in, Westergaard was able to save himself by locking himself in a room. Westergaard’s work was one of 12 [...]