By Sep 10,2009

Markets in Everything: Endangered Species Edition

Ronald Bailey highlights a new Scientific American article exploring the unintended consequences of endangered species lists: Many conservationists around the world favor enacting and enforcing laws to prohibit capturing or...

By Sep 08,2009

People confuse me

I honestly don’t understand why some on the right were freaking out last week about Obama’s speech to school children. What’s the problem? I agree that the lesson plans that...

By Sep 04,2009

I feel an addiction coming on

Just watched the first episode of (the new) Battlestar Galactica. I wanted to try it, but assumed it would keep my interest for only a few episodes. My wife only...

By Sep 04,2009

Fellow Republicans, support Obama now!

The situation in Afghanistan is bad and getting worse. Young Americans are losing their lives in a war that may soon lose the support of the American people. Fellow Americans,...