Zero Base Thinking

Chechens In Custody Once again the application of Zero Base Thinking gives its practitioners advance warning of the news. Since these Cheche...

Saddam Gets Religion Today Saddam Hussein, secular dictator of Iraq, issued a statement urging the Chechen fighters in Moscow to wage jihad...

Chechens in Moscow So now Chechen rebels have taken a theater and about 800 hostages in Moscow. Reports are pointing out the links between ...

Afghanistan Improving In spite of all the gratuitous remarks one can read about how hopelessly bad things are in Afghanistan, Colin Powell ...

I Couldn't Have Said It Better I came across this mind-blowing excerpt from a letter to the editor from the Daily Australian. I'll ...

Jemaah Islamiya: Who? On Tuesday in this space I revealed that the experts in al Qaeda consider Jemaah Islamiya to be an arm of the terroris...

Gun Control in Iraq I have a proposal that just might get the Idiotarian left on the war wagon. These people seem to regard gun control as t...

Australia: The Left Begins to Reassess Clive James, media critic, Australian, resident of England since 1962, in today's Guardian has a...

A Just Claim With all of the problems facing our nation, the amount of money that the federal government spends chasing cancer patients who...

Jemaah Islamiya This organization has been offered by some as an alternative to al Qaeda as the perpetrator of the Bali Attacks. "We ...

A Measured and Appropriate Response That's what the Australian government just announced after that recent bombing in Bali, the one with...

What is the Nature of Warfare? Or, to state this differently, human relations between groups? The basis of the interaction between human be...

The Beatles This morning, like most every morning, I woke up, did my ablutions, put up a pot of coffee, and hit the two buttons that turn on...

Struggle for the Legal Tender Even Zero Base Thinkers have to make a living, and mine derives from Television these days. Thank God it's...

Aflatoxin, Again So the Aflatoxin debate goes on. I received a particularly cogent counterpoint to yesterday's post, debunking the effec...

War in Gaza? According to The Jerusalem Post , there is a war, right now, in the Gaza Strip, between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Ha...

Aflatoxin All of a sudden, Aflatoxin is in the ether. I don't remember where I heard it first, but after I saw Bill Bennett on Fox News...

Lily Pads and Frogs My favorite futurist, Nicolas Negroponte, has described a vision of the near future in the current issue of Wired Magazi...

Wrong Way Al Now Al "Pod Person" Gore is saying that Bush is going the wrong way, by worrying about an insignificant thing like w...

Welcome Frank If the Republicans know what is good for them, they will welcome Frank Lautenberg, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled...