Valentine’s weekend links
Posted by Bigfoot on 14th February 2010
Happy Valentine’s Day and (for tomorrow) President’s Day. As I listen to the icicles fall from my house, here’s what’s going on at home and abroad.
The U.S. Coast Guard conducts a humanitarian mission at an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
A song to teach your children geography: Fifty Nifty United States. (What, not 57?
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The snows of February have collapsed the Blacksburg (VA) High School gym. Blacksburg is also the location of my alma mater, Virginia Tech.
Thank A Soldier’s Blog launches The Gratitude Project.
Road rage in Texas leads to a police chase – and a bomb investigation.
From The Long War Journal, U.S. unmanned strike aircraft attack a Taliban training camp in North Waziristan.
As U.S. troops fight their way into the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, some say the fighting is as intense as in Falluhah, Iraq. I certainly have respect for anyone who fought in both of those battles. More on the fighting in Marjah from Holger Awakens.
Some climate scientists, including former IPCC author John Christy, have doubts about global warming because of problems with the underlying data collection.
Why does the Tea Party movement exist? Glenn Reynolds explains. (H/T Blogs For Victory)
From The American Thinker, Adam Shaw faults Secretary of State Clinton for generalizing about “organized religion”.
At a surfing event in Half Moon Bay, California, two huge waves sweep away spectators standing on a seawall.
D’OH! A “tagger” tries to put graphiti on a door in an aquatic center in Commerce, California. On the other side of said door are 100 Los Angeles County cops.
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