Video: Small-Unit Night Fighting in Lebanon

Via Menorah (via Power Line) comes a riveting video made by an Israeli journalist who accompanied troops on a night mission against a Hezbollah-occupied village in Lebanon. It’s 27 minutes long and exceptionally clear and well produced. You will watch the whole thing.

To start the video, copy and paste this URL into your browser:

http://tinyurl.com/rdjvh

Maybe This Time They’ll Do It Right

Jim Miller contextualizes & links to a new column by Kate Riley, “Who Owns the Past?” This is a topic discussed here and here before – the Kennewick Man. She says:

Kuw�ot yas.�in and Kennewick Man have something to say about how people came to America. But the testimony told through their bones reveals only a small part of the larger mystery. The truth should not be buried

Inefficient Efficiencies

Instapundit links to a FastCompany article about Walmart’s pushing of the use of high-efficiency compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) as a means of cutting energy consumption. I like CFLs and use them in my home. Walmart’s effort represents an honest attempt to try to reduce energy consumption.

To bad this effort and all other efforts to reduce energy consumption via greater efficiency will never, ever work.

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Chicagoboyz promotes family values.

Go Read Ginny’s Post First

I wanted to add a couple of things to what Ginny said about SATs. The SATs have been a burr under my saddle since ETS “re-centered” the test in 1994. Mensa* no longer accepts the new SAT because the statistics are now so screwy – they no longer correlate with IQ. The scores had been dropping for a while prior to 1994 and the educational powers-that-be wanted to hide it, so they re-jiggered the baseline. In practice, this meant a 100 – 200 point increase in the composite score – I knew of 2 kids who took both the 1993 and 1994 version (within a few months, and without extra test prep, so extra schooling was not a factor), and that was the difference in their scoring. N of 2, I know, but I have evidence I’ll provide lower down that this is pretty typical.

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