Links and Minifeatures 08 12 (Friday)

Pigilito says found an article on whether the sun was burning when life started on Earth. Cool!



Nose on Your Face has an amusing satire of the blog poll.

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Scrappleface take the right tack on the Indian names controversy. Read the comments, too! Most of the pro teams here in San Diego are already PC enough, but we'd have to change the San Diego State Aztecs to something else. Not as if the Aztec Empire ever got this far. So we need something relevant to the San Diego area that would strike fear into the hearts. Since the San Diego State Lawyers would be inappropriate (no law school), and San Diego State Illegal Aliens would have PC issues of its own, I'd have to suggest San Diego State Marines. Or Navy. (Yes, the last two suggestions are serious, although nothing else about the suggestions)



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LGF has the scoop on why the Iranians even bothered to talk about nuclear weapons.



Captain's Quarters has more about the complete failure of the negotiations to accomplish anything positive, at least from the point of view of preventing the mullahs from frying however many millions of people, or delaying their ability to do so. When you're looking for an excuse not to take action, they'll talk. It won't mean anything except that they're giving the useful idiots cover, while they proceed with work on their facilities. Everybody with a brain predicted this months ago. Why is anybody surprised? I would really like to know. Or was this some kind of research project on the power of Denial? Can I request that next time we make the global consequences a little less extreme? Like say, using sports fans instead of totalitarian religious nutcase regimes that want to be nuclear powers as the research subjects?



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Trying not to chase my tail: I know it's the August slow season, but I'm trying not to chase my tail repeating old information ad nauseum.



If you really want more on the Able Danger stuff, may I suggest Jim Geraghty over at NRO? Barring new revalations, this seems to be the definitive take. Everything else I've seen was tail-chasing without any real new information.



I don't anticipate much new of substance on John Roberts until the hearings begin on September 6, but Captain's Quarters has an excellent article on NARAL pulling their slanderous ad.



Michelle Malkin notes that The NY Times Wall of Silence on Air America has finally cracked. Now they're playing the "can we downplay this any more?" game. Would they have managed to avoid saying anything had it been any time other than August Slow Season?



One wonders why that this story hasn't gotten more attention. Of course, it isn't information on 9/11. But this is where the war on terrorism will be won or lost - by getting serious about the borders and security, not playing politics because politicians are afraid of offending a certain minority which actually wants the problem dealt with. There's quite a disconnect between what hispanics want and what leaders of "hispanic organizations" want. If we can't keep illegal aliens out of the Border Patrol, we've lost.