Under the Radar: A Links Round-up

• The 2008 defense appropriations bill includes a provision for a new $100 million "prompt global strike" program that could fire a conventional warhead anywhere in the world in under two hours from space. [Washington Post: Space Defense Program Gets Extra Funding]

• Blackwater to be involved in the War on Drugs? [WSJ: Next Test for Blackwater]

• Will the Supreme Court hear the case involving the District of Columbia’s strict gun-control law? [New York Times: Case Touches a 2nd Amendment Nerve]

• More time alloted for diplomats to volunteer in Iraq in hopes that some diplomats won't be forced to serve at the embassy by the Bush Administration. [Newsvine: State Extends Time for Iraq Volunteers]
  

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