I found this presentation by Michael Crichton to be fairly interesting. Some may think it comes off as anti-environmentalist and dismissive of global warming. Seems to me he is just trying to make a point that the environment needs to be considered from a different angle. Environmentalists’ hearts are in the right [...]
The L.A. Times is rollin’ this week. In amongst an interesting article on open borders by Tim Cavanaugh and a fairly surprising op-ed on low wages by George McGovern is Tim Rutten’s intriguing perspective on the popularity of “The Da Vinci Code” in America. (Incidentally, is there a better surname for a legislator [...]
I picked this up at Sully’s site. This is America?
The city council in Black Jack, Mo., has rejected a measure allowing unmarried couples with multiple children to live together. The mayor said those who fall into that category could soon face eviction.
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Mayor Norman McCourt said starting Wednesday the city will begin trying to evict groups [...]
I just had to say, Andrew Sullivan has been noticeably quite on the NSA wire-tapping news from yesterday. Unless I’m missing something?
I have to agree with Westover on this one. Suspending the gas tax is just nuts and wrong-headed in a couple different ways. This is beautific:
“There has been too much grandstanding with politicians holding press events at gas stations and pointing fingers, but not offering any real solutions to the high cost of [...]
Michael Totten takes a day-trip to northern Iraq with his long-time friend, Sean LaFreniere. Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI.
One of the more interesting threads that pops up in Totten’s travelogue deals with meeting the Kurdish people. He describes a very easy relationship in his fifth report:
It’s hard to convey what it’s [...]
If you can find a way to get ahold of the two-hour Frontline special on the invasion in Iraq, do so. I delayed watching this for quite a while, but it is excellent. It has numerous interviews with US and Iraqi commanders as well as several Iraqi civilians. The focus is on [...]
Now I was on vacation when this aired on NPR, but it seems to me that O’Connor’s parting shot was swept under the rug a bit. Maybe I’m wrong as I was checked out of reality. Anyway, O’Connor not-so-subtley threw out the word “dictatorship” at a relatively recent speech.
Let’s send more money to this wonderful policy, please. At least the government’s being inventive rather than spending it all on the same old things. Sigh.
The current French riots are definitely related to those previous. The opposite side is trying to protect the labor laws that severely damage France’s future in the open marketplace. These current protests are in response to a potential law that would allow employers to fire young workers within their first three years of [...]