Category: History

Purveyors of home furnishings in Iraq are having to change their inventory:

Before the war, low-ranking civil servants would have been content to earn the equivalent of $20. Now, they complain at anything lower than $300, observers say.

The result, according to carpet importer Ahmed Haji Rasul, has been a radical change in consumer taste. “In the past, people made do with what they could afford,” he told IRIN in the Sulaymaniyah bazaar. “Now they want colour-coordinated house interiors, European stuff. We’ve had to start importing from further afield.”

Read the this story and many more in Arthur Chrenkoff’s latest Good News from Iraq.

Popular Mechanics prints a conclusive roundup of 9/11 conspiracy theories, thoroughly debunking each one.

The failure of liberals lies in not accepting the world as it is, rather than what they would like it to be.

In a completely useless sentimental guesture today I smeared blue ink all over my right index finger.

One Iraqi describes his family’s experience of voting in their first free election in 50 years. Power Line has just a few of the hundreds of pictures you can find all over the net today of Iraqis exercising their freedom.

Much, much more is up at the usual places, including Friends of Democracy for the inside scoop.

Seventy-two percent of eligible Iraqis — 10 million people — defied the terrorist scum who would have them cowering in fear. The terrorists killed 28 of them.

Congratulations and best wishes to the people of Iraq!

Update: Power Line links to reactions from Iraqi bloggers.

Update 2: Chrenkoff’s latest Good News from Iraq is up.