How to get CNN to cover the UN oil-for-food scandal

Tie it to a Texas businessman, which of course implies complicity by President Bush.

Winds of Change.NET: The Myth of Chinese Air Power

She hasn't been posting much lately, but now all of a sudden Susanna is busy. Start here and go down.

UPDATE: Great non-sequitur title, eh? It's what happens when you use the Google Toolbar's BlogThis item just to open an editor and forget to change the default title.

Let's get strategic

There's lots of good stuff about Chinese military ambitions and the Indian Ocean here. And don't miss Trent Telenko's comment, or the post he links to.

Andrea Dworkin, RIP

David Frum points us to this obituary in the NY Sun for radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.

Her ideas were well outside the mainstream, far to the left, but that's not to say that they didn't resonate elsewhere sometimes:

Increasingly pushed to the side in mainstream American feminism, Dworkin could deliver the odd zinger when provoked. "It will probably bring the FBI to my door, but I think that Hillary should shoot Bill and then President Gore should pardon her," she wrote in early 1998, at the height of the Lewinsky affair.

That quote was comparatively tame. The article goes on to say "For all her vituperation, interviewers and friends commented on Dworkin's sweetness in person."