Featured Article - WSJ.com

GDANSK, Poland--When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.

Poles fought for their freedom for so many years that they hold in special esteem those who backed them in their struggle. Support was the test of friendship. President Reagan was such a friend. His policy of aiding democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War meant a lot to us. We knew he believed in a few simple principles such as human rights, democracy and civil society. He was someone who was convinced that the citizen is not for the state, but vice-versa, and that freedom is an innate right.

Google Goes to War - What's News Tonight

Pakistan as a country is as stable as Citibank, that is, bankrupt, doomed, aimless, too big to fail quietly. The civilian leadership is bootless, larcenous, devious, wholly false and cowardly. The military leadership is a cult of sadists, lunatics, paranoids and cynics. And this is to leave out what to make of the ISI with its hands on the nukes. There is no alternative to the Taliban except the devils in Islamabad. The Obama administration, following Colin Powell's rule, "You break it, you own it," -- now owns Pakistan.

How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com

"TODAY is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments. Outside the technical community, not many people know about the R.F.C.’s, but these humble documents shape the Internet’s inner workings and have played a significant role in its success."