Barack Obama's comments about how he wouldn't want his daughters, "punished with a baby" got a mixed reaction from Brody File readers. Below is a sampling of the hundreds of emails I received about this:
If you were playing one of those word association games, and somebody mentioned "Tibet" you would probably say something like "Western China," "Dalai Lama," "Lhasa," or "Tibetan Buddhism."
A number of people have asked for an update on Ami Ortiz. For those that may not have heard, Ami is the 15-year-old boy who was severely injured in a terror attack on March 20.
CSNTM Director Dr. Daniel B. Wallace recently received permission to send a team of four men to Albania to photograph the manuscripts with state-of-the-art digital equipment. By the end of their first day in Tirana in July, they realized there were far more than 13 manuscripts.
Is it me, or have these instantaneous F.B.I. denials become almost like parodies? Where's Lt. Frank Drebin when you need him? From KOB TV in New Mexico:
Warm up the fire trucks. Dutch politician Geert Wilders has released his controversial short film, "Fitna" on the internet. At the time of this writing, the LiveLeak.com site hosting the film was crashing, presumably from too much traffic. The English version is here. The link has had moments when it stopped working.
Amidst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by big media about the economy, a new piece by Robert Samuelson offers a great reality check.
It's not uncommon to hear complaints about biased media coverage wherever you go, and ironically right now some of the loudest criticisms towards the Western media are coming from a country with state-controlled media: China.
Back at the end of January, I blogged about a little girl named Amina, who was found by U.S. Marines and suffered from a life-threatening heart defect. Being men of action, the Marines went to work finding private donors and sympathetic surgeons, and arranged for Amina to be flown to the United States for surgery.