Wednesday, January 16, 2008

headlines below the fold

Ralph Peters takes on the NYTimes "Murdering veterans" story...

Freedom of speech alert....
Mark Steyn is in trouble for hate speech because he quoted an imman...
Now the Pope is being boycotted for a speech 18 years ago for citing a quote made by another scholar...on Galileo...
And especially don't try to investigate a crime in your blog...or you might get the FBI at your door.

The HistoryNewsNetBlog sometimes has interesting discussions (such as this one on Roosevelt's terminal illness). Alas, too often their essays are purely political.. and have little to do with history.

Chavez' attempt to have people stop calling FARC terrorists isn't helped when they kidnap a bunch of tourists for money.

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