Sierra Faith

Pachelbel Canon in D — with a different, uh, beat:

Obama the editor of the Declaration of Independence. Lovely.

Short Sharp Science: Last week’s explosion of a 54-year-old, 76-centimetre (30-inch) diameter high-pressure natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, raises troubling questions about ageing US infrastructure. The explosion and subsequent fire, fuelled by leaking gas, destroyed many houses and killed at least four people, with more deaths suspected. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, [...]

Financial Times: A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices. Future quantum computers will, for example, be able to pull important information out of the biggest databases almost [...]

He just doesn’t get it: “I think the Tea Party couldn’t ask for any better publicity than to be denounced by a millionaire who dodges paying taxes on his yacht,” said conservative gadfly Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.

Another excellent piece by David French: If we can’t possibly appease the enemy, why even contemplate giving up our freedoms? If heads will roll even if Korans are handled with kid gloves (literally), why preemptively surrender a core part of our constitutional identity? No court ruling can stop Islamic terror, but court rulings can limit [...]

O’Donnell in Delaware for Senate and Paladino in New York for Governor: (CNN) — Tea Party favorites won two primary elections over more mainstream Republicans on Tuesday, demonstrating again the clout of the conservative political movement on the political right. Now the question is whether the right-wing candidates can also defeat Democratic rivals in November’s [...]

Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta: Then-Specialist Salvatore A. Giunta distinguished himself by acts of gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a rifle team leader with Company B, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry Regiment during combat operations against an armed enemy in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan [...]