10 November 2003 A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS This year we celebrate the 228th anniversary of the founding of our Corps. As always, it is an occasion for remembrance, proud...
Gabriel Gasave of the Independent Institute on Imposing Transit Visas: Just Another Low-Flying Idea? Late this past summer, the U.S. government announced the temporary suspension of two programs that allowed certain international air passengers...
Steven Johnson of Slate on The Best Search Idea Since Google: How Amazon can make money from books you already own. Amazon.com's announcement this week of its new "search inside" feature—allowing full-text searches of...
CBC News on Researchers dig up earliest 'butcher shop' Anthropologists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest direct evidence of a stone tool "kitchen," dating back 2.6 million years. The stone tools were...
Russell Madden on You Might Be a Fascist . . . nod in agreement that individuals must show proof of identity in order to open a bank account because otherwise the terrorists will win....
BBC News on US raises spectre of conscription: The American defence department has begun a recruitment drive for local draft boards, raising questions about a possible revival of conscription. A notice on a department...
Dr. Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Is Iraq Another Vietnam? As the insurgency in Iraq gets bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly, the hawks are falling all over themselves to pooh-pooh comparisons...
For those who've been reading this weblog for a while, you're aware that in addition to this blog and my publications, I also edit a few sections of the Online Directory Project over at...
Danny Heitman on Can the break of day be negotiated? As Daylight Saving Time concludes this weekend, many Americans will roll back their clocks and grab an extra hour of sleep – a windfall...
Sara B. Miller and Seth Stern of The Christian Science Monitor on Odd bedfellows fall in line Residents of Kenai, Alaska, usually worry more about the number of king salmon in the river than...
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