By • Oct 28,2008

Hu Jia, his honor

Last week, the European Parliament awarded its human rights prize, aptly named for Andrei Sakharov, to Chinese dissident, Hu Jia. Hu has made something of a career out of making...

By • Oct 28,2008

The price of life

Last-ditch, life-prolonging cancer medication: $4,000. The suicide pill: $50. Confirmation of all those slippery-slope arguments against assisted suicide: Priceless.

By • Oct 28,2008

Consequences

I’d like to belabor this, at least a little, because the difference in our conceptions of how to protect our people is the difference between a foreign policy that works...

By • Oct 27,2008

Inelegant solutions

I don’t really want to belabor this, because David and I have very different conceptions of America’s duty to keep her people safe. But we have a situation where the...

By • Oct 27,2008

Richard Dawkins, scourge of fun

Richard Dawkins, professional atheist, intends to write a book on the ill effects of Harry Potter on children [Note to self: Fertile ground for an atheist-fundamentalist alliance?]: Looking back to...

By • Oct 27,2008

Simple, elegant and wrong

Sonny’s right about the applications of plausible deniability in the war on terrorism. The trouble is that “plausible” part. It’s one thing when a senior Syrian security official gets stabbed...