Blog Briefs - Jan. 4

The Belmont Club: Livery but sick and green

The tsunami relief effort continues to be a US-Australia effort, with Singapore now in and coordinating closely with the US and Australia.


Though almost none of the food, supplies and logistical systems to provide relief for tsunami victims have come from the United Nations, it appears important to the organization that what has arrived bare the colors and stamp of the UN.


UN representatives have said that while it was a good thing that the Australians and Americans were running the air ops into tsunami-wrecked Aceh, for cultural and political reasons, those Australians and Americans really "should go blue." In other words, they should switch into UN uniforms and give up their national ones.


Just One Minute: Krugman - Save Social Security Last

Paul Krugman continues his defense of the Social security status quo with a ringing call to Save Social Security last.


Little Green Footballs: Iran Reports US Overflights

It comes from Iranian government sources, so skepticism is in order: U.S. spy planes spotted over nuke sites.


Michelle Malkin: Good Morning, Mickey Kaus

Jimmie at The Sundries Shack notes Mickey Kaus's belated discovery of Norm Mineta's treachery. Seems Kaus was unaware of Mineta's role in assisting the ethnic grievance industry shakedowns of airlines whose crew members engaged in threat profiling immediately after 9/11.