There are a couple of important points worth adding to the story of Tanya Rosenblit, the Israeli woman who refused demands from ultra-Orthodox male passengers to move to the back.
Michael Conathan has an interesting albeit somewhat overoptimistic look at the state of fisheries in 2011. Conathan notes a variety of pretty good news ranging from the implementation of catch.
Palestinian and Knesset member Ahmad Tibi takes Republicans to task for using increasing inflamed rhetoric against his people. He takes on Eric Cantor in an interesting way: A man living.
It seems the belief that lemmings periodically commit mass suicide as an instinctual response to overpopulation is, in the strict sense, a myth. Lemmings reproduce so quickly that they are.
Quiggin: Now that I’ve got started, what is it with the adulation of Clay, Calhoun and Webster? Sure, they were the leading figures in the US in the decades leading up.
...which is only appropriate, being that that's how we roll. (And for the record, expect much more from Yours Truly in the New Year, now that I'm not teaching seven.
Niall Ferguson on Newt Gingrich: I just read the transcripts of some lectures [Newt Gingrich] gave in the 1990s on “Renewing American Civilization.” They positively fizz with historical insights and.
Providing an object lesson in why voting for Tea Partiers is a really terrible idea, the city council of Troy, MI decided to out-Christie Christie by turning down federal money.
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