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...
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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...
Another One Bites The Dust
Tyler Hicks of The New York TImes on A 'Liberated' Orphanage Searches for Its Children: Al Rahma, an orphanage in northern Baghdad, was run by the state under Saddam Hussein, but is now run...
PVT Jeeves
Tom Anderson of Slate on Jeeves Goes to War: Why is the Pentagon sending soldiers to butler school? Somewhere in Iraq, a young soldier is handing his three-starred boss a bottled water on a...
Defense of Home and Hearth
Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute on Defense of Your Home Is Not Terrorism, Not Even in Iraq Bush vows that the continuing attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq will not dissuade him from...