Year: 2007

  • People Make Mistakes

    Best to examine them outright: The CIAs Biggest Bloopers – Fact Checker So the CIA got it wrong on Irans nuclear program in the last National Intelligence Estimate, back in 2005. But does that mean they have got it right this time? Not necessarily. The history of the CIA is littered with spectacular intelligence mistakes.…

  • Good for him.

    Ahmadinejad has got every reason to gloat, and he actually shows some restraint here. (CBS/AP) A new U.S. intelligence review concluding Iran stopped developing an atomic weapons program in 2003 is a “declaration of victory” for the Islamic republic’s nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday. The U.S. intelligence report released Monday concluded that Iran…

  • Fertilizer Subsidies for Food Security

    There are some things that only government can do, All hail Malawi. Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts – New York TimesBut this year, a nation that has perennially extended a begging bowl to the world is instead feeding its hungry neighbors. It is selling more corn to the World Food Program of the…

  • Where I’m At

    Seal of the City of Chicago, originally uploaded by juggernautco.

  • In case you were wondering

    Where promo should go, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This is where the promo should go.