More on TIA
The New Yorker has posted an interesting piece on Too Much Information. When it comes to concocting fevered visions of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things...
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More Calls for Trent’s Head
More conservatives have called for the Majority Leader’s resignation: Linda Chavez: “Despite Lott’s apology — which came belatedly, only after criticism within Republican and Democrat ranks began to mount — there is no way...
Radical Reason
Russell Madden's latest article Radical Reason is now online at The Laissez Faire Electronic Times: Depending on the poll or study one reads, anywhere from eighty to ninety-five percent of Americans profess a belief...
Lott of Denial
Susanna Cornett, usually an interesting and provocative read is having some serious issues believing that Lott could be anything but a good ole boy conservative with a penchant for putting his foot in his...
Posthumous Baptism
Here's another reason why I'm agnostic and generally skeptical/afraid of organized religion: Mormons Again Promise To Stop Baptizing Dead Jews Link courtesy of Radley Balko.
Sorry for that whole going to jail when you were innocent thing…
Heather Lende of The Anchorage Daily News reports that Haines residents apologize to wrongly convicted man: A month ago, the Chilkat Valley News stunned old-timers and shocked newcomers with Phillip Jackson's story. In 1973...
More Alaskan Oil, Less Terrorism
George Landrith (4th cousin) of Frontiers of Freedom has a new opinion piece on National Security, the Economy, and the Environment: America imports almost 60 percent of its oil – mostly from the Middle...
Cross Burning
Today's Christian Science Monitors asks, "Is cross burning a form of free speech?" Well, yes AND no. Let me preface this by informing my more militant liberal readers that I myself am in a...
Heavy Sleeper
CBC News reports on a Woman offered 15,000 air miles after falling asleep on plane: A woman who fell asleep on a flight to Newfoundland and wound up in England has been offered 15,000...
Military InJustice
U.S. News and World Report has posted a revealing story by Edward Pound on the bizarre and unfair world that passes for a military justice system. I've had my own experiences in being investigated...