This had slipped my mind, until I finally found it skulking in one of my Google Reader folders. Ralph Peters:Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have...
See Gary on eugenics in North Carolina.
This is the fourth installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferSecond World,.
Fascinating; the unscientific popular choice for the name of China's first aircraft carrier is Mao Zedong:But which was the runaway favorite in two polls conducted earlier this month? Mao Zedong.He may have been a monster to you and me. The number of Chinese who died as...
Mr. Trend has one of the nicer tributes to MJ that I've read.
Ahem:Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set.
Dan Barry, in the New York Times, on the contemporary John Birch Society:The coordinator was Chris Nowak, 24, a substitute math teacher who said he joined after his father, a longtime Bircher, re-educated him about American history; for example, he now understood that the United Nations...
For your weekend irritation:Something worth noting: We often think of anti-gay bigotry as a pre-existing social fact that is, slowly but appreciably, slipping into history. But that's not quite right..
The only surprising thing about this stuff is that none of these bigwigs (including a law school dean -- apparently she never learned to think like a lawyer) can ever.
It's because of arguments of this quality that they found a civil liberties claim that Sam Alito (albeit superfluously) can support:Matthew Wright, lawyer for the Safford school district, predicted the decision would have a "chilling effect" on administrators responding to threats of drugs.The War on (Some...
I'm a bit late to the game on this one. Paul beat me to the punch, and got in the obviously good quip in the process. I blame the time.
Governor of South Carolina breathes deep sigh of relief....[UPDATE BY ROB] the obligatory video:Michael and Farrah, rest in peace.