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Time to Rethink the Defense of Reason By David Warren Lee Harris is among the few living writers who do not, as the saying goes, "subtract from the sum total of human knowledge" with each new essay. I've puffed him before, and will puff him again, the more shamelessly in the knowledge that...

See zombietime or Little Green Footballs web sites for pictures! Anti-American July 4th San Francisco, July 4, 2007 July 4th in San Francisco. So many things to do! After attending the AK Press "**** the Fourth" party as a pre-holiday warm-up, I was hungry for some more...

July 02, 2007 The Real Threat to Civil Liberties By Victor Davis Hanson A common liberal complaint against the Bush administration is its supposed trampling of civil liberties. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, and Guantanamo supposedly have undermined our freedoms--or so we are warned ad nauseam...

Here's a lesson in the effectiveness of strict gun controls http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2710596.ece Government figures 'missing' two million violent crimes By David Barrett, PA Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 26 June 2007 An extra two million violent crimes a...

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Contrast the state of the "Arab Street" today, with this. Maybe their 15 minutes of fame have run out. In today's excerpt--at the end of the first millennium CE, it is the Muslims who save the wisdom of the ancient Greeks for the Western world, and--among many other things--apply the process...

More Middle East Madness By Victor Davis Hanson "The Palestinian people will never forgive the Hamas gangs for looting the home of the Palestinian people's great leader, Yasser Arafat." So Palestinian Authority spokesman Abdel Rahman recently exclaimed. "This crime will remain a stain of...

June 19, 2007 Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization By Victor Davis Hanson There is only a thin veneer that separates civilization from man's innate barbarity. Some 2,500 years ago the historian Thucydides once warned us about the irony of revolutionaries and insurrectionists destroying...

From TimeOut London: Is London's future Islamic? It’s the capital’s fastest growing religion, based on noble traditions and compassionate principles, yet Islam can still be tainted by mistrust and misunderstanding. Here Time Out argues that an Islamic London would be a better place The...

Osama's House of Horrors By Patrick Poole FrontPageMagazine.com | June 1, 2007 The same media hacks that brought us countless images of Spc. Lynndie England doing her best John Dillinger imitation with an Iraqi prisoner while covering the Abu Ghraib scandal have suddenly gone mute on the...

This might be worth a letter to your rep in our Congress. My will wonder what Rep. Hinjosa is using for brains. Fed dollars proposed for La Raza Plan would start with $5 million, then double funding -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted...

LONDON (Reuters) - Pupils should not be encouraged to put up their hands to answer questions in the classroom because it could harm shy children, the Education Department advised teachers on Friday. (Advertisement) Ministers have issued practical guidance after research showed some children...

May 31, 2007 Demagoguery Beats Data on Gas Prices By Thomas Sowell With gasoline prices rising, political rhetoric is rising even faster. Liberals in Congress and in the media have launched a war of words, whose net result may well be a demand for some form of price control. Price...

Virginia Tech, School, and Workplace Violence An Expert’s Perspective Analysis: Tragic Lessons from Virginia Tech by Lt. Col. David Grossman Saturday, May 19, 2007 I've been predicting for years that a tragedy like Virginia Tech would occur, and I am so very sad to be proven correct...

The Amnesty Fraud: Part II By Thomas Sowell May 23, 2007 Every aspect of the current immigration bill, and of the arguments made for it, has Fraud written all over it. The first, and perhaps biggest, fraud is the argument that illegal aliens are "doing jobs Americans won't do." There are no...

May 22, 2007 The Amnesty Fraud By Thomas Sowell Nothing is more common than political "solutions" to immediate problems which create much bigger problems down the road. The current immigration bill in the Senate is a classic example. The big talking point of those who want to legalize...

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id= The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently. It is also worth noting that the...

Presumptions Of The Left By Thomas Sowell Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Radically different conclusions about a whole range of issues have been common for centuries. Many have tried to explain these differences by differences in conflicting economic interests. Others, like John Maynard Keynes...

Londonistan Calling The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation? by Christopher Hitchens...

This is a good reason to reverse gun controls and recreate state militias. The great Osama is getting ready to open another front in his "Third World War"-in his words, the first being Iraq. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17874369/