More Coverage of this Please!

Thanks to ACE for pointing out this Fayetteville Observer piece on 2 of the 35 muslims in the 82nd Airborne division.

Loyal Opposition

Big thanks to Democratic Representatives Pelosi and Wrangel for giving Chavez the political bird. Both are outspoken critics of Bush, which makes their taking umbrage at Chavez's assinine pinheadery that much more admirable.

Chavez is a thug, who, despite how he is romanticized by the far left, is running Venuzuela into the ground. It is really heartening to see that despite the many and broad differences of opinion, the leaders of the opposition are willing to break with the Kos types and retain a sense of perspective on this.

The presidency is an office, not any one man.

Hat Tip: A huge swath of Right Wing punditry.

More on Anousheh Ansari

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UPDATE:She's in Space !

Space.com reports that launch was at 12:09 this morning.

Hobby Space links to her blog...er....SPAAACE BLOG where she is now posting from orbit.

Go read her blog!



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Anousheh Ansari, soon to be the first female space tourist, has a blog...indeed, it will be the first SPACE BLOG :)
She is interviewed here, and here.

That private citizens have the opportunity to go on these trips is intensely heartening to me.

The future is on it's way.

The fact that she is an Iranian Muslim woman, (who's family has done an incredible job of moving Human spaceflight forward) inspires hope in all sorts of other matters too. The past, however tenacious it may be, is ultimately on it's way out.

Hope From the Major....

Matoko over at Ghost Blog links to a really heartening story on the Mutazhili sect of Islam. And the efforts of one Doctor Ghamidi to institute mandatory ethics training in religious schools.

Go read her extended excerpts and read the whole thing.