The other day I was looking for some information about a certain passenger on one of the 9/11 flights that crashed. To find it, I Googled something like “passenger lists 9/11 flights,” thinking that would do the trick, and up … Continue reading →
…has been halted: A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers… …Fountain said his wife delivered the cupcakes to the front … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker points out how the latest study of the relation between gun control laws and homicide rates uses the statistics therein to make a certain policy point, and how they could just as easily be used to refute that … Continue reading →
Yesterday commenter “Lizzie” wrote: I remember watching the PBS “Ethics in America” episode where Charles Ogletree asked Peter Jennings & Mike Wallace what they would do if they were embedded with and the enemy, and they realized the enemy was … Continue reading →
Did you know that there’s a campaign by shark attack survivors to save sharks? I can understand this in the abstract, if sharks are indeed an important part of the ocean ecosystem, although it still seems rather odd, perhaps a … Continue reading →
…is over, the boy is safe, and the man is dead. The authorities showed remarkable presence of mind and patience in handling this one.
Continue reading →Remember that one of the big objections to Mubarak’s rule was the fact that, during his entire time as president—which began right after the 1981 assassination of his predecessor Sadat and ended almost two years ago (almost exactly two years … Continue reading →
It’s fairly apparent that Obama’s recent push for post-Newtown gun control is not reasonably related to the facts of the case, but exploits it instead as an opportunity to use the public’s emotional reaction to it (and some children, in … Continue reading →
Simple: they’re not. After a mass shooting, gun controllers push the policies they’ve always supported as if they were a logical response to that particular example of senseless violence. When skeptics say it is hard to see how the proposed … Continue reading →
I have a new piece up at PJ. Please take a look.
Continue reading →I suppose there have always been conspiracists who believe everything is a plot, perpetrated either by the government or a shadowy band of powerful schemers bent on manipulating us for their own nefarious purposes (are those two groups redundant?). I’ve … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker at Powerline makes some good points about the different reactions two suggestions to reduce violence: extending the ban on certain guns versus trying to limit violent video games (or violence in the entertainment media as a whole). Why … Continue reading →