Someone’s Earned a Beatdown
CBC News on Pellet lodges in boy's brain after shooting: No surgery has been scheduled for a five-year-old boy who was shot in the face with a high-powered pellet gun, doctors in Toronto said...
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Cowardly Tribunals
The Economist on Unjust, unwise, unAmerican: YOU are taken prisoner in Afghanistan, bound and gagged, flown to the other side of the world and then imprisoned for months in solitary confinement punctuated by interrogations...
Habitual Liar
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on False in One, False in All: When I was a newspaper reporter covering the criminal courts in Pennsylvania, lawyers always told juries they were entitled...
Can’t You Smell That Smell?
CBC News on Vicks VapoRub helps cubs find mom: When conservationists in Manitoba found four orphaned polar bear cubs roaming the streets of Churchill, they knew they had to do something. They couldn't risk...
When Is It Really Over?
Col. David H. Hackworth on Bring what on? On May 1, George W. Bush landed in a military jet on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with all the pomp and ceremony of...
One Voice, One View
John deLaubenfels of Strike The Root on Clueless Army Wives: A recent article in the Guardian tells of the frustration of military families in Hinesville, "The Fastest Growing Town in South-Eastern Georgia," adjacent to...
‘Digging’ With Microwaves
Hazel Morris of New Scientist on Satellites hunt for buried treasure: In a first for radar sensing, researchers have shown the technology can locate and identify buried objects. Their technique could be used in...
Ms. Stonehenge
CBC News on Stonehenge mystery solved: it's a girl: England's ancient Stonehenge monument resembles a female fertility symbol, Canadian researchers say. Viewed from above, the pattern of stones resembles the female genitalia, according to...
Tyranny of the Dupes
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Are We Feeling Duped Yet? A lot of silly things have been said about Iraq’s alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, such as that...
Educratic Nanny State
Susan Saulny with Abby Goodnough of The New York Times on Suit Says School Ordered Girls Tested for Diseases After Party: The "hooky party," which attracted about a dozen students who cut classes at...