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Identity politics and the irony of the 2008 campaign

MoDo's column about identity politics in the Democratic Party today actually got me thinking. Particularly this part: Dianne Feinstein onto the Fox News Sunday-morning talk show to promote the idea...

Hugo’s excellent adventure

Hugo Chavez is rattling sabers and denouncing his neighbor Colombia’s incursion into Ecuador to take out a FARC camp to which the terrorists have fled.And he’s incensed, incensed I tell...

Europe’s Future: Prescription for Disaster

A quote from Victor Davis Hanson in the German weekly Junge Freiheit, 27 February 2008 [A]fter the fall of the Soviet Union, you [=Europe] diverged onto a secularized, affluent, leisured, socialist,...

Perfection, Symmetry, and Chaos in Science and History

Preface| Pt. 1| Pt. 2| Pt. 3| (Sidebar 1)| Pt. 4| Pt. 5 Pt. 6| Pt. 7| (Sidebar 2a)| (Sidebar 2b) ...continuing from Sidebar 2a (you might read that first before continuing on...

Immigrants Don't End Up in Prison

From a Public Policy Institute of California comes a study finding that immigrants, legal and illegal, in California are not more likely to show up in prison than native-born Americans. Some...

Fraud at the Parliament: MEPs and Money

The secret report about massive embezzlement and fraud by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) has been written by one Robert Galvin, who is head of unit, internal audit and is based in...

Che or Scalia

From the comments of the idiotic Che non-story:Fact: Che Guevara was a ruthless murderer who imprisoned, tortured, and sent his political opponents to the firing squad without due process. This...

Police Professionalism in Boston

The Boston Phoenix investigates the sad case of Stephan Cowans, wrongfully imprisoned for killing a Boston police officer. Cowans was exonerated in 2003, then murdered in 2004 by someone with...

Dominic Monaghan Gets Creepy With 'Pet'

Filed under: Thrillers, Casting, MGMAs a die-hard Lost fan, I'm going to miss "Charlie" (or as Claire says, "CHAHlee"), the character played by Dominic Monaghan. But at least I'll get to see the...

China prepares for Olympics

The question is, will anyone call them out for their arrests of human rights activists? Though I lost interest in most Olympic events decades ago thanks to widespread doping and other methods of...