REUTERS: “The US government said today it had neither an exact count nor all the names of hundreds of people captured in Afghanistan over a year ago and now detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. … “
“How do you keep the populace reassured about government services in an emergency?” asked Daniel J. Oates, the police chief in Ann Arbor, Mich. “You saturate the community with police presence. You have police cars drive around with their lights on. We tripled the number of cops on the street last night. It cost me […]
The largest electrical blackout in U.S. history has left me temporarily stranded in Washington, until things get straightened out in New York City a bit. As far as I can tell, much of Michigan, including Ann Arbor, is without power, and Southeast Michigan is without water service. Although Ann Arbor-based Mlive.com seems down, the university […]
The August archive page, complete with all entries to date from that month is avaliable here. All months, including August, can be found in the “Archive” section on the bottom left. The page includes my entry on Luke Massie in London: “RWL/BAM-N … In the U.K.”
” … Besides, it is not at all clear that far-left ideology was the cause of past Democratic defeats — or that ideology plays a truly decisive role in presidential elections. While political strategists and pundits tend think in terms of sharply delineated issues, most voters do not. “The American Voter,” the landmark study by […]
I’ll be on a trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. until Friday, and I don’t plan on any website updates until then.
Yes, the giant nail will be removed from the giant Uniroyal tire in I-94 as part of a $1 million upgrade. The tire was built from a Ferris wheel from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. > Freep: “Uniroyal to pump up the look of I-94’s giant tire”