Links and Minifeatures 08 27 Sunday

Diagnostic Dyes May Put Patients at Risk

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The special interests are swarming already: Study: Teacher's gender affects learning.



It's been peer reviewed and accepted, according to the article. But not accepted by advocacy groups, obviosly.



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Hurray! Fox News crew freed after Gaza ordeal



Michelle Malkin notes that they were forced to convert to Islam, among doing other things, at gunpoint.



Islam does not acknowledge compulsion as an excuse for false conversion. Under Islamic law, the words are the words, and cannot be unsaid or taken back under any circumstances. According to their own lights, the Islamists have given themselves license to deal with Centanni and Wiig if they ever forswear Islam. The punishment for apostasy is death, in case you have forgotten. It also gives islamic religious leaders the right to emplace a fatwa upon them for failure to hew to the religious line. All in all, one more impressive propaganda victory for the Islamists.



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Don Surber has thought of a political judo blow that would devastate Iran. I don't know that I agree it would be sufficient to defuse the crisis, but it would certainly hurt him with Islamists.



Yet another reason to worry about Iran: Iran test-fires sub-to-surface missile.

Original story here, as Yahoo! links are notoriously impermanent.



Captain's Quarters notes the importance of the Iranians new heavy water facility.



Via Argghhh!, a very interesting deconstruction of one person's political priorities at Caerdroia. I've long suspected some on the left of this, but the subject of this deconstruction is the first one I can remember to come out and proclaim it.



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Professor Bainbridge on Elliot Spitzer.



I mostly agree.



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On Plame, Captain's Quarters has the last post I hope I ever need to read on it. What an (expletive) waste. Over literally nothing.