By now, I’ve come across a few bloggers and blogcommentpeople (of which I am both) giving their two cents about the Russia-Georgia conflict. Dad29 has a lot to say about it, criticizing local radio host Mark Belling for his thoughts.
As if we have any idea. Specifically local Wisconsin bloggers. We live in Wisconsin. We have no idea. I had to look up Georgia on Google Maps and was surprised to find out it borders Turkey. I had to Google “russia georgia conflict.” All …

Give John McCain some foreign policy points. Here was his response to the current outbreak of violence between Russia and Georgia:
Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory. What is most critical now is to avoid further confrontation between Russian and Georgian military forces. The consequences of Euro-Atlantic stability and security are grave. The government of Georgia has called for a cease fire and for a resumption of direct talks on South Ossetia with international mediators. The U.S. should immediately …

According to Jane’s Country Risk, the United States isn’t the world’s most stable and prosperous nation – and it’s not even in the top twenty.  We rank in at #22, behind countries like the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Vatican.
How did they rate it?  Observe:
under the rating system, which took into account each nation’s political structures, social and economic trends, military and security risks and external relations, the Vatican state scored an average of 99 out of 100.
The United States still fared well, scoring an average of 93 out of …

Case Study Monday, ladies and gentlemen: an eastern European country that runs the Flat Tax! I always wondered what it would be like to just try these wacky conservative economic ideas on countries in real-life; turns out Estonia has been running the Flat Tax for a while.
Estonia, formerly of the Soviet Union, runs on the Flat Tax system. This means that everyone above a certain poverty line pays the same percentage of their income to the government. Not only that, but they’ve privatized many of their …

Hey, do you hear that?
Ah, yes.  Normalcy.  It’s a normal day today because yet another terrorist plot against the U.S., and this time, Germany, was averted.  One of these days, liberals could have woken up to news about a massive chemical explosion on Ramstein Airfoce Base, with casualties around 700, and kneejerkedly bash Bush some more.  But they didn’t.  In a parallel universe, people are probably watching breaking news about a huge terrorist strike.  But that’s not our universe.
It’s too bad security people don’t get credit for averting terrorist attacks …

It’s been a while since we’ve had some Loch Ness Monster evidence.  A lot of people say that with today’s technology, and laser sweeps, there’s no way one could exist.
Not so fast, says Gordon Holmes, who’s a lab technician from Yorkshire.  He got some pretty interesting visual evidence on film that says otherwise.
A big black smudge moved about 6 mph through the lake.  The video also shows the background of the lake, giving it a lot of legitimacy.
So I’m going to post a poll on this thread.  What is the …

The very un-French-sounding Nicolas Sarkozy, a pro-American “conservative,” won France’s election for the president to succeed Jacqure Chirac. He beat out the socialist Sergolene Royal by what Reteurs called a “comfortable margin.”
Although he claims to be American-friendly (which he also noted won’t be TOO pronounced given his public’s general hatred for us), he has the symptoms of a Jacques Chirac clone. It’s always good to see a socialist get beat, so today, be sure to have some fries, toast, or wine of the French variety.

In this world of selective “Al Sharpton” moralism, it’s nice to have an organization that isn’t afraid to tell us what is and isn’t good.
Like the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, denounced gay marriage and abortion as being part of terrorism with a human face. The criticisms are coming as a result of what Amato feels is poor media coverage of the Italian media.
This is just guesswork, but if Archbishop Angel lived in America, what do you think he would …

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said he wouldn’t let any gay pride parades happen in his neck of the woods despite our gay western culture despite pressure from the West. 
He even goes so far as to call gay pride parade “satanic”:
“Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which can be described in no other way than as Satanic,” Luzhkov said at the 15th Christmas educational readings in the Kremlin Palace.
That’s taking it a bit far.  Clay Aiken and Lance Bass aren’t “satanic,” unless you’re talking about the …

The Church of England has broken its usual dogma by calling for doctors to be able to let sick newborns die.  Needless to say, the Vatican isn’t very happy about this, being generally in favor of human beings and what not.
Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs – but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die.
So there’s the question – which is the lesser of …