links for 2006-11-18

• Letter from China: Growing Chinese trade with Africa a threat - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
  The new Chinese player on the block carries none of the historical baggage of its Western counterparts, and has been completely uninhibited in its new African embrace.
  (tags: china chinaeconomy africa economy)
• Kuklas Korner
  some NHL telecasts still appear to be lit via candlelight, with interview sets on loan from the local community cable channel. It’s also quite clear the energy levels of a few play-by-play men rival that of Ben Stein
  (tags: nhl hockey canucks)
• Michelle Malkin: Milton Friedman, R.I.P.
  One of America's greatest intellectual heroes of freedom passed away last night
  (tags: economics usa)
• Freedom’s Friend by Milton Friedman
  But few people in human history have contributed more to the achievement of human freedom than Ronald Wilson Reagan
  (tags: reagan economics economy usa)
• Instapundit.com - Milton Friedman Has Died
  Friedman (at that time still a left-winger) also invented the idea of income tax withholding while working as an economist for the the Treasury Department during World War II. Although Friedman intended it to be a temporary wartime measure, it soon turned
  (tags: economy economics usa taxes)
• We Review the Top 40 Car Movies and Tell You Where to Get Them - Hot Rod Magazine
  a lot of us started accumulating collections of car movies that rival our collections of stolen road signs, rubber scraped from defunct dragstrips, and Hot Wheels
  (tags: cars movies)
• The Washington Times: Bo Schembechler Dies
  Bo Schembechler, who became one of college football's great coaches in two decades at Michigan, died Friday after taping a TV show on the eve of the Wolverines' No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown with perennial rival Ohio State. He was 77
  (tags: sports football collegefootball)
• lgf: Vancouver Shari'a Watch
  But the taxi driver, Behzad Saidy, is arguing his Muslim religious beliefs will not allow him to take dogs in his taxi, because Muslims can’t associate with dogs.
  (tags: waronterror canada news)
• Chinese village erupts again a year after police shot protesters - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
  A Chinese village where the police shot protesting residents last year has again erupted in conflict after protesters took eight officials hostage, residents and a news report said on Friday.
  (tags: china protests chinaculture guangzhou)
• FOXNews.com - KFC Unveils New Logo With Giant Image in Nevada Desert - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News
  KFC commissioned a giant, 87,000-square foot version of it that can be seen from space.
  (tags: news food)