- Shrunken Majority Now Favors Stricter Gun Laws - Percentage favoring stricter gun laws has declined in recent years, while most still oppose handgun ban
- How does it feel to die? - New Scientist on Drowning, Heart attack, Bleeding to death, Fire, Decapitation, Electrocution, Fall from a height, Hanging, Lethal injection, and Explosive decompression.
- How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize - Al Gore did it–you can too!
- Gipper?s Glass Slipper - The Reagan moment is over.
- 24% Consider Al Gore Global Warming Expert - Just 36% of Americans say that Gore knows what he is talking about when it comes to the environment and Global Warming.
- 3:10 to Yuma in Cuba - How a Western changed the way Cubans speak.
- A Tale of Two Town Houses - Real estate may be as important as religion in explaining the infamous gap between red and blue states.
- For the GOP, a Daring Tax Choice - This week, reform-minded conservatives intend to introduce the most far-reaching tax plan since Jack Kemp’s three decades ago.
- The Republican Collapse - American conservatism is only successful when it?s in tension ? when the ambition of its creeds is restrained by the caution of its Burkean roots.
- Use Of ‘N-Word’ May End Porn Star’s Career - ‘Cum Inside’ star Jennica St. Foxx is receiving heavy criticism for using a racial slur in her latest film.
- The Culture War on Facts - Are you entitled to your own truth?
- Miller, Coors to combine U.S. operations - Brewers aim to compete with industry leader Anheuser-Busch
- An Error-Plagued Game, but From the Broadcast Booth - On TBS, Chip Caray?s play-by-play of the Yankees? 8-4 win in Game 3 on Sunday night was packed with errors and silly strategy, enough to give me agita.
- BBC set to shed 12% of workforce - The final tally of job losses, which will have to be approved by the BBC Trust, could approach 2,800, according to one person familiar with the situation.
- Afghans Pressed by U.S. on Plan to Spray Poppies - The War on Drugs or the War on Islamic extremism? Pick one.
- Chill out. - Stop fighting over global warming — here’s the smart way to attack it.
- Talk Is Cheap - Couldn’t the U.S. Do More to Pressure Burma’s Junta?