- The worst celebrity profile ever written? - Angelina Jolie, “The Best Woman In The World.”
- An Earth Without People - A new way to examine humanity’s impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared.
- Microsoft Surface Parody - The future is here and it’s not an iPhone. It’s a big ass table.
- Unifying Iraq - Partition is the path to more war–multiple wars, in fact.
- Apple Suck-Up Watch - It’s not just a new kind of cell phone, it’s a cultural watershed!
- The fights on the Right - The American right bubbles with debate and disagreement, while the left, for all its talk about “diversity,” rarely seems to show any.
- Sex Games - Coming to a high school near you.
- The Failed States Index 2007 - The world?s weakest states aren?t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress and stability of countries half a world aw
- Beheading in the Name of Islam - A religion of the sword with the blade forever at the throat of the unbeliever.
- Look to Milton - Open borders and the welfare state.
- The Senate Immigration Bill: A National Security Nightmare - The bill offers alien terrorists new pathways to obtain legal status, which will make it easier for them to carry out deadly attacks against American citizens.
- Mexican army’s soldiers fleeing for drug cartels - More than 120,000 Mexican soldiers have deserted the Army, many switching sides
- New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low - Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
- Congressional Job Approval Dips Again This Month - 24% Approval Rating in The Gallup Poll
- Real Time Economics - Economic insight and analysis from The Wall Street Journal.
- Google Public Policy Blog - Google’s views on government, policy and politics
- 100 Greatest Adventure Books - National Geographic’s “Extreme Classics”
- Richard Rorty, remembered - What made him a crucial American philosopher?
- Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online - Fantastic infographic
- After 5 Years In U.S., Terrorist Cell Too Complacent To Carry Out Attack - “We remain wholly committed to the destruction of America, the Great Satan, but now is not a good time for us.”
- Half Of Nation Outraged At New, Not-Yet-Released Michael Moore Film - The other half of the nation has praised Sicko, calling it a “real eye-opener” that would “challenge people’s preconceived notions.”
- Earthquake Sets Back Solomon Islands Bible Project - washingtonpost.com - It took theology student Alpheaus Zobule nearly a decade to make the Bible available to the people of the tiny South Pacific island where he grew up. But an earthquake dealt his work a powerful blow.
- The $2 Million Genome - James Watson, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, now has a copy of his very own genome. Will you be next?
- ‘Renegade’ Joins Race For White House - Obama Is Given Code Name by Secret Service
- Happy Father?s Day, Mom! - Hallmark cashes in on family breakdown.
- Slow-motion Tet - Al Qaeda is counting on sapping our will, and persuading America to choose to lose a war it could win.
- Many Arctic Plants Have Adjusted to Big Climate Changes, Study Finds - 20,000 years? And here I thought the Industrial Revolution was only a couple hundred years old.
- The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer - A look inside the $1.8 billion worldwide trade in virtual items
- Who, Me Take Running Class? - Realizing that form matters
- The Coffee Talk on Gas Prices That Isn’t - Why am I complaining about the price of gasoline while forking out what is arguably a lot of money for a cup of hot water and spices?
- Barley Shortage: German Beer Prices to Bubble Up? - A trend toward biofuels in Europe has lead to a barley shortage, which means more expensive beer.
- Ethanol’s lure has pols plastered on corn likker - There is no ethanol “market.” The ethanol business is driven by government planners, not freely acting buyers and sellers.
- Free Speech for People Who Think Like Me - Al Gore: besserwisser chicken hypnotist
- Plan for new ‘teenage call-up’ - Because nothing promotes more unity like involuntary servitude.
- “I am both Muslim and Christian” - Episcopal priest Rev. Ann Holmes Redding claims she is both Christian and Muslim, at the same time.
- Cry for Argentina - A beautiful country imperiled by decades of abusive government.