The Daily Web Roundup is a collection of links to the news, commentary, and information I found interesting or useful today. If you want to read more of what is found in this post, find links to my favorite news, commentary, and information sites at Dennis L Hitzeman’s News Reading List.

The curses and blessings of the Old Testament often leave us a little bit unsure. Such language and the ideas that go behind it are not what we are used to in our modern age of ambiguousness, but the truth is that the essence of those blessings and curses hold true even today.

The World Watch Preview is a post that takes a look at news items that are currently making their way through the never ending 24-hour news cycle. The Preview calls attention to and provides a quick commentary on some of those events. This week: ‘Is Mocking al-Zarqawi Mocking Ourselves’ and ‘Military Intelligence?’.