Entries for April 2006

The Corner poster notes the following from the Eursoc:

From the invaluable Corner of National Review Online I find this gem, from Spain

Those were the subjects of a talk yesterday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies by Jorge Castaneda. Castaneda was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003 and is a scholar who has written many books.

Jon Utley, a friend whose views on foreign policy are very different from mine, brings to my attention the opening of Ellis Island of exhibits from the Perm concentration camp in Russia. Jon's father died in the Gulag, and he has visited the Perm camp. I pass along this from an E-mail:

On May 3 there is opening on Ellis Island exhibits brought here from the Perm concentration camp. It is sponsored by the National Park Service. ... I wrote about the camp in my report on visiting Northern Russia.

What is the efficiency of alternative energy sources? Here's a handy table from Popular Mechanics, via Instapundit.

Here is a story from the Los Angeles Times on how teachers unions bilk their members by steering them into investments that don't give them maximum returns but do give massive returns to the unions.

It's official. Tony Snow is the new White House press secretary.