Zero Base Thinking

Atlantic Threats One of the great things about blogging about events and politics is that I can justify reading all sorts of crap that norma...

They Kill Christians, Don't They? In a little covered story , we found out this weekend that Afghanistan is about to execute a man for c...

Evolution vs. Design: Score One for Darwin The debate between those who believe that all the living things in the universe are the result of...

What Civil War? Ralph Peters is in Baghdad today, and he puts the lie to these near-hysterical ravings about the civil war that left-leanin...

Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description As about one hundred fifty blogs and national media have it, Homeland Security, that omnipres...

LMAOFOTGRITD In the New York Times today there is an article about a study of diet in which it was found that low fat diets do nothing to e...

Can Government have Any Secrets Anymore? In this age. which has been described as post-historical by Frank Fukuyama , can a nation be allowe...

Believe In Democracy The recent election in Israel has many commentators in a tizzy, and politicians wondering what to do next. Even Kofi A...

If Bush Was A Statesman... Osama has given the forces of freedom in Iraq a big chance, if only George Bush has what it takes to take it. Sh...

Abortion Lies Are Revealed For whatever reason, I, like most Americans not affiliated with the democrat party, have not given abortion much ...

Another Incompetent Ruling In yet another display of judicial incompetence, a judge in Maryland has ruled that a 33-year-old state law agai...

Iran: NEXT Over at Dean's World, Aziz P has a post up that is worthy of grave consideration. It refers to an article from The Atlantic...

Visual Illusion In the interest of the exploration of the human mind, I invite you all to lok at this illusion . If the colors change, or di...

Larry's Memo To Bush Larry Sabato, who is as close to a non-partisan political writer as there is, has posted what he calls an "Ur...

Kyoto in Montreal And now up for a post-mortem perambulation is the Kyoto Accord, as the hacks of the world bureaucracy and their symbionts ...

Another Threat Aborning What with all the noise from Congress about a national ID card, many of us had resigned ourselves to a certain amoun...

Choice and Life Abortion is the most divisive issue of our time. It certainly permeates our national debate over the Supreme Court nominat...

Iraq More Fair than U.S. Senate In a stunning reversal , under U.S. and U.N. pressure, the Iraqi Parliament has revised rules under which th...

A Test of Consistency The nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court gives us a chance to see whether the ...

Katrina, Race, Silence, and Bill Bennett The opponents of affirmative action legislation, starting in 1965 , pointed out that the policy m...