A bronze bust of Indo-British ’spy princess’ Noor Inayat Khan, who worked in France during World War II before being tortured and shot by the Germans, was unveiled in Gordon Square Gardens in London this week, near the house where she lived as a child.
It is said to be the first such memorial in Britain dedicated to a Muslim and the first in honour of an Asian woman.
Trove of World War I pictures found in a chest in France
Freeway construction digs up mammoths
Has Karl Rove shot his bolt? According to this Politico article, he's shaping up to be one of the scapegoats of Romney's loss.
Michael Totten says no shenanigans afoot in Petraeus resignation.
The election must have epochal indeed, since it drew Steven den Beste away from his anime blogging back into political commentary:
...the Democrats seem to want to destroy the US as we know it now. The catastrophe I see coming appears to be a feature, not a bug, from their point of view. That scares me most of all.
They think that Americans buy too much, own too much, use too much. They want prices to rise relative to wages so that we can't afford as much. They want to make energy expensive so that we won't use as much. Anything that they can't make expensive they'll try to ban outright, like coal.
They've already done some of that, and they want to do more. And they're willing to lie and cheat and steal to make it happen.
I think they'll succeed. But I don't think they truly understand the consequences. I don't think they know just how awful it will become.
"Live not by lies..."
At the mostly-dead pundit ranch Onery.org, Orson Scott Card blames the media for shoving Obama over the finish line. Sorry, that's weak tea. There really are that many more people who believe in the direction Obama is taking the country, than otherwise. The news media is not the gatekeeper in the Information Age, the wall are down. What we saw is who we are. However, he is right on target about how Obama's gotten a pass for FEMA's bungling of Sandy, as opposed to Bush's very humanity being condemned in the wake of Cat 5 Katrina.
