The Daily Mail: "They think that I was like this evil torturer. ... I wasn't,'' she says. "People don't realize...
I've been hearing from the media about "right wing" seemingly-facsist groups in Europe, and have wondered, numerous times, if they're...
Telegraph, via Mark Steyn: Canterbury is sufficiently gay, council inspectors rule Whew! That's a relief! A government watchdog decided that...
When "Jane Galt" first appeared in the wake of 9/11, I found her a refreshing and interesting libertarian voice. But,...
I remember the screams when Congressional Republicans (and many Democrats) voted to reform bankruptcy law — in ways that, from...
For a period of time, as a teenager, I had fairly bad acne and, at one point, was looking into...
Since (as Mickey Kaus notes) this study would undoubtedly have gotten a lot more media attention if it had found...
VDH: Iran, remember, has no such reluctance about meddling. It endorsed Bush in the 2004 presidential race — to the...
Can you remember a bad piece of furniture you had in college? What if it followed you around for the...
Daily Mail: [James Wright] quotes [Hendrix's manager Michael] Jeffery as saying: 'I was in London the night of Jimi's death...
Famed Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once noted that "any technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."...
Part 31 of a potentially endless series... Why do they hate us abroad? In part, because a dedicated group of...
Interesting Wired article. On one hand, his alleged justification: But to Tobias, pissing off The Man isn't the point, not...
AP (ultimately): The Associated Press has learned the Obama administration is in talks with the remote South Pacific island nation...
Daylight savings time disrupts humans' natural circadian rhythm When people living in many parts of the world move their...
According to Richard Lloyd Parry, writing in The London Times, North Korea wouldn't be any trouble at all if weren't...
Like most Americans, I'm a bit of an Anglophile. The "special relationship", James Bond, Monty Python, Yes Minister (and much...
Eric at Classical Values laments that it's almost impossible to have have an adult discussion of whether we want socialism,...
One of the odd things about Why Mommy is a Democrat (a book to help the devout pass along their...
Via the Times, a profile of one the nation's biggest venture capital firms -- they're pushing hard for tight controls...