Alas Babylon

This via Jerry Pournelle’s UK correspondent, Roland Dobbins.
In an act of at least partial contrition, an officer in charge of the US military occupation of Babylon in 2003 and 2004 has offered to make a formal apology for the destruction his troops wrought on the ancient site.
Colonel John Coleman, former chief of staff for the [...]

Dems in Denial — The Fox effect; UBL surfaces

There’s a new study out from National Bureau of Economic Research purporting that in areas where Fox News broadcasts that people vote Republican more often. Original story here at Betsy Newmark’s.
The study appears flawed to me in many ways, first a correlation is not proof. They do not norm or analyze several major factors that [...]