Katrina – One Year Later

Coming soon to a bar near you. Muslim Ninja Women. Civil Comment has a good write up on Bush’s approval ratings and the rising gas prices. I wonder if $4 gallon will compel Detroit and the American public to re-think the SUV? The rise in prices is a boon to Saudi Arabia. More money to fund madrassas and the demolition of Mecca and Medina Alt Muslim leads with a interesting read on Islam in the US prison system What happened to the Karl Rove controversy? It seems to have disappeared. Why did this country spend so much time on Monicagate,…

I was on a plane so I missed Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), but I heard it was brilliant. I caught part of Al Sharpton’s last night, and all of John Edwards. Edwards is probably going to get the most press coverage, so I want to mention part of Sharpton’s. Favorite section of the evening: You [George Bush] said the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. … We didn’t…

I came across an interesting article on Slate. So, where should one go to learn Arabic in an environment with relatively little propaganda? And should one start classical and then go colloquial or vice versa?