Sir Winston, Refuteth Thee
Fabulous quote from Winston Churchill, for the interventionist big-government pro-war types: "America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would...
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Still Looking
CNN on Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard: CNN Security Correspondent David Ensor reports that under United Nations sanctions in place in 1991, the concealment of such materials — and failure to...
Blog, Inc.
Thom Weidlich of The New York Times on The Corporate Blog Is Catching On: Corporate executives aren't known as the spill-their-guts type. But some are beginning to participate in an activity once thought to...
Organ Trading
Julian Sanchez of Reason has an interesting article on Whose Organs Are They, Anyway?: David Undis thought he had found a simple solution to a grave problem. In order to encourage people to become...
Time Running Out on TWA Aviators Frequent Flyer Miles
Don't lose your TWA Aviators miles, transfer them to American Airlines before June 30th. I didn't have a lot of miles with TWA, but they are now safely in my AA account regardless. And...
Harsh Mistress
Hopefully they won’t make the movie. After Starship Troopers was tranformed from a book discussing cititizenship and civil responsibilities in the subtext of a hyper-militaristic subculture of the larger Terran Federation to an action...
Let Your Light Shine On
I had become a little distressed when Northern Light transitioned to a quasi-Lexis-Nexis lite 2 years or so ago. It was like losing an old friendship over a really bad idea. On the PG...
Just Plain Evil
The Associated Press on Baby survives 7-story fall: A man was arrested Monday and charged with tossing his baby daughter out a seventh-floor apartment window, police said. The 10-month-old girl survived the 80-foot fall,...