Friday, February 21, 2003

National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

One of the things that got lost in all that snow was the release of the President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. It's well worth reading and you can download it by clicking here.

Thursday, February 20, 2003

Orange Is Black

Tina Brown's musings on the War are so lame it is hard to believe that she was ever taken seriously in New York. Andrew Sullivan has a brief Tina smackdown, which is worth reading and exactly right.

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

The Big Guy Is Back

Legendary television producer and former CNN President Rick Kaplan is returning to ABC News to help produce its coverage of the War in Iraq. It's supposedly a three-month deal. I doubt it.


Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Random Notes

Part of my email correspondence might be called Tiger's Greatest Shots. A number of correspondents are saying that Sunday's four-iron from the rough (downhill lie) under the tree and then up and over the trap onto the 15th green was on a par with the legendary six-iron (from the bunker, all carry, over water) at the Canadian Open a couple of years back. Michael Thomas would probably say: not. And I suppose he'd be right. But what a golf shot. Phil Mickelson's caddy looked like he'd seen a ghost.

Here's a prediction: All this chatter about British Prime Minister Tony Blair being in deep political trouble is going to look very foolish in about six weeks time. For someone who was widely derided by conservatives as the British Clinton, Blair has proven himself to be an extraordinary leader and ally. After the liberation of Iraq, he will be the leader of New Europe and rightly so.

What do you suppose the defection rate is within the Iraqi regular army? What do you suppose it is within the much ballyhooed Republican Guard. The best guesstimates are 35% and 30%, respectively, and that's before the onslaught; an onslaught, by the way, that will be the most ferocious application of targeted (non-nuclear) military hardware in human history. What do you suppose the defection rate will be then? My guess would be 90%.




Monday, February 17, 2003

Google Buys Pyra

What do you get when you combine the world's most popular search engine with weblog publishing? We'll find out soon because Google has acquired Pyra Technologies, the company that created Blogger.com.