Uh-oh. Now they gone and did it. Clint Eastwood is going to be, like, so pissed! From the Telegraph (UK): The Orang-utans of Borneo are facing an unprecedented threat as their habitat is destroyed to satisfy increasing global demands for bio-fuel. As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.At a rehabilitation centre run

And likely a whole boatload of potato vodka. To, you know — set the mood. — Or dull the pain, if your wife happens to look like a female Yakov Smirnoff.

From the Washington Times: A criminal investigations report says several U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees are accused of aiding Islamic extremists with identification fraud and of exploiting the visa system for personal gain. The confidential 2006 USCIS report said that despite the severity of the potential security breaches, most are not investigated “due to lack of resources” in the agency’s internal affairs department. “Two District Adjudications Officers are allegedly

Which, of course, is not really a “mystery” at all. In fact, if stories like this were any less surprising, then we’d have something to be surprised about. Of note: those most likely to believe these kinds of stories are those in the West who have little experience with firearms, but a whole lot of experience decrying their evils. Which is precisely at whom propaganda pieces like this are aimed

At least, so says Major Abed Alkariem Khalaf, speaking the Iraqi defense ministry, in this translated account from Buratha News: “Smuggling mobs from Alrumailah area have been arrested after they were spotted by these surveillance plans.” Khalaf added, “Alqaida elements have lost their offensive capabilities and have become defensive. This is because Alqaida in Iraq has lost over 75% of its civilian leadership due to daily attacks and ambushes carried

And Ray Robison, for one, is disgusted that a news service appears to be using their resources to cover for a Democratic presidential candidate who recently accused US forces in Afghanistan of indiscriminately bombing and killing civilians. — Mostly women and children, is my guess. Orphaned children. And their puppies. Who only have three legs. Because they lost one of their legs under the treads of a Bradley driven by

Interesting bit from LGF on efforts to edit Wikipedia anonymously — and the software developed by a Caltech grad designed to flag those anonymous edits and track them back to high profile IP sources, such as the NYT or al-Jazeera. See also, from Wired, “See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign”. One of the struggles open-source reference sources will have to combat are concerted efforts to shade

Sadly, another “world’s oldest person” will just pop up to take this one’s place. They’re a lot like “the poor” that way: every time one person pulls out of that lowest 10% of earners, another person slips down to fill the void. We can only stand by and hope that a brave man — someone like John Edwards, for example — steps up to put an end to this kind

Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart, addressing a La Raza conference in South Florida last month, tells the radical separatist group, “It is important that we emphasize the Spanish language.” Because, you know, assimilation is a racist enterprise, and English is the language of the oppresser class. Diaz-Balart’s pro-business, free-market stance is laudable. But the irony of his railing against totalitarianism while addressing La Raza and promoting the kind of multiculturalist pap that,

Writing in Der Spiegel, here’s Ullrich Fichtner: Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq — it is proof that the US military is more successful than the world wants to believe. Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq — not just Anbar Province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers — are essentially pacified today. This is