Archives: Politics
I choose science
Posted August 4, 2005 09:28 AM
My forehead is slightly flatter today than it was yesterday. That's because of the time I spent pounding it against my desktop last night when I learned that the President of the United States thinks that it makes perfect sense to combine science classes with folklore and mythology instead of...
Our miserable media
Posted July 8, 2005 08:16 AM
I was up early yesterday morning, early enough to catch the half-hour live broadcast of the BBC News that airs on my local PBS channel every morning. After it ended, I switched over to CNN and watched it until I couldn't stand the babbling anymore. Which wasn't very long. It...
Essential reading for Independence Day
Posted July 2, 2005 07:54 AM
Monday isn't just July 4th. It's Independence Day. In honor of the occasion, I urge you to go to the National Archives and read the Declaration of Independence. (Full text is here.) Imagine that troops from a foreign country had traveled across a sea and were occupying your homeland. Read the list of...
Buy these books, and then burn them...
Posted June 1, 2005 04:20 AM
Human Events Online, which bills itself as "The National Conservative Weekly," has just published a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. I really hate to give them the traffic, but you really have to see this list to believe it. It was compiled...