Musings of a modern guy

In a sign that the Tamil Tigers continue with their campaign of terror attacks from the air, they used their aircraft to bomb 2 fuel installations. This air attack did not cause too much damage, but it is a sign that the escalation that the Tamil Tigers caused by using aircraft is not going away […]

One of the main problems in Iraq that was making the sense of re-building it as a nation more difficult was not the attacks by insurgents, but the civil war that was breaking out. Death squads, sectarian conflicts, neighborhoods getting cleaned of one sect, etc was the main issue threatening to spin the situation out […]

An era has ended in Russia. Boris Yeltsin, the man who stood on a tank and led a counter-revolution that ended a coup attempting to bring back an old style Soviet era, died today. Boris Yeltsin is a man who has a very mixed legacy.
He was brought into some limelight by Gorbachev, but after that, […]

The US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales is in serious trouble after his hearing before a senate committee looking into the issue of firing of the 8 US attorneys. The issue about the firing of the attorneys has been snowballing into a major crisis, one that the Republicans are afraid to back, and the Democratic party […]

In a ruling that would have shocked a large section of the population, especially the pro-choice section, the US Supreme Court upheld a federal law on banning a type of late-term adoption. This was unexpected since the law had no clause dealing with health exceptions for the mother, a fact that had caused federal courts […]

In one of the deadliest scenes of mass murder in the United States, a student of South Korean descent killed 30 people at Virginia Tech university. This is a tragedy that shakes people up all over, essentially because of the randomness of the incident and the fact that this happened in a college campus, not […]