Sep 15,2008
A latter-day Genghis Khan
Warmonger? Mass murderer? Evil incarnate? Yes, Hitler was all of these things, but, as Niall Ferguson says, he was also an inept colonialist, and his Reich one of the last,...
Sep 15,2008
Why the world won't end, part 8
Ron Bailey deconstructs the application of the precautionary principle to the Large Hadron Collider: [T]he empirical evidence is that the universe has been running trillions of these high-energy physics “experiments”...
Sep 15,2008
Reviewing The Anthrax Evidence
“Based upon the totality of the evidence we had gathered against him, we are confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks.” – Jeffrey Taylor, U.S....
Sep 14,2008
Please, stop giving us your money
I just saw an entire DC Metro bus painted from front to back with a Chevron ad that read something like: I will not use my car. Will you join...
Sep 13,2008
Bad Idea?
Russia’s stock market has lost 46% of its value since May, with most of the loss coming on the heels of its war in Georgia, sez the New York Times....