>Iraqis Resort To Selling Children I am waiting for Windows XP SP2 to complete installing, and, as I am wont to doing in these episodes of spare time, I examine international news sources. This article in the English Al Jazeera edition caught my eye. I encourage all of my geography students to go outside the…

>Tata chosen as top bidder for Jaguar, Land Rover I know Ford Motor Company has been trying to make itself more profitable. Ford has been shedding people and trying to focus on maintaining market share against Toyota. In this article, Tata Motors of India has been identified as the new owner of Jaguar and Land…

> Thomas Friedman, New Times columnist, writing in a recent column, makes a motion to only support those candidates that unite Americans around “a common purpose, not a common enemy.” I second that motion. For the last six years, our country’s leadership has developed an extremely myopic view of American policy, whether it is domestic…

> Lesser Berserkistan, of course! Sorry, Gary T. I didn’t get your permission to post. I do think that your treatment of these events hit home, however. Let’s form a sub-committee to investigate the deaths of hundreds, thousands, millions of people, e.g. Sudan/Darfur, Rwanda. Particularly while it is happening. Oh, yeah, while we are at…

>Can Islam and Democracy co-exist? Or, in other words, is a democracy the best form of government for Iraq, or for any other nation in the region, for that matter? Iraq is not the only example of U.S. regime change within the region, only the latest. To answer this question, I wanted to find evidence…

>America’s fastest-growing suburbs The migration to the Sunbelt continues. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California comprise the Sunbelt. The Sunbelt area has fewer cloudy days than many other areas of the country, hence the moniker, “Sunbelt.” Granted, the community of Lincoln, CA., is located on the fringe of the Sunbelt, but its growth seems…