Bush signs historic pact with India. The nuclear crazies are hot. Why? The Indians already nukes, we just made friends with them. That's all.

We should do the same with Iran in return for real democracy. Take the venom away from the muslim fanatics.

Between Origami and reports that the company is devloping a search engine better Google's, 2006 could become quite a busy year for Microsoft.

Microsoft's going to revolutionize again?

Some animal rights wackos get in trouble for assaulting animal workers. About time the law caught up with the wackos.

NWI blogger suggests that Hammond's mayor has $7,500 for home owners in Hammond who want to send kids to school. Any chance he would support vouchers so they could choose where they go to high school too?

Someone took the time to rank our congressional office holders on a scale of liberal and conservative. Guess what Julia Carson is the most liberal ... time to go Julia!

Indiana’s Rep. Julia Carson (D) is among the most liberal of House members. She is more liberal than 84% of the House members, though she is far from the most liberal. Rep. Peter Visclosky, by comparison, is more liberal than 72% of his colleagues

Love this quote: Mother Earth doesn't require large reserves of oil left in the ground.

Update 10:19am: Just a little news update for everyone. The Shias have decided to continue supporting citing it as being their constitutional right. Well, good politics is compromise, and as I think the Shias are about to find out, it is the other group’s right to form an even larger umbrella, comprising 141 — or over half — the seats in order to block Jaafari and pick a different choice for prime minister. In our own history, the Second American Revolution was when power was first transferred peacefully from John Adams gave up power to Thomas Jefferson after the presidential election of 1800 effectively realigned the nation. Now, Iraq will have its own. Can the Shia give up power peacefully should it be challenged?…
Update 11:55am: In a preliminary investigation, Iran is being implicated in the bombing of the shrine. Go figure!

Democracy and Islam presentation at UW Law.