Lawyer: Cooper “Burned” Karl Rove
Rove’s attorney talks to NRO.
by Byron York
The Anonymity Trap
Norm Pearlstine didn't go far enough.
By Jacob Weisberg
Karl Rove, Whistleblower
He told the truth about Joe Wilson.
Saddam and al Qaeda
There's abundant evidence of connections.
by Claudia Rosett
Hollywood's Last Taboo
Movie studios censor themselves to placate Muslim pressure groups.
by Bridget Johnson
WSJ
As Identity Theft Moves Online,Crime Rings Mimic Big Business
Russian-Led CarderplanetSteals Account Numbers; Mr. Havard Hits ATMs
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Left
What the press missed in Hillary Clinton's Aspen speech.
by Edward Morrissey
Business Week
The Rich Boys
An ultra-secretive network rules independent oil trading. Its mentor: Marc Rich
Signs of Intelligence?
What the neo-Darwinists don't understand about theories of Intelligent Design.
by Isaac Constantine
WSJ
Searching for a HomeIn Atherton, Calif.? Look Out for Googlers
As Employees Cash In Stock, Bidding Wars Escalate; A $3.5 Million Tear-Down
HowStuffWorks.com
How Blink Technology Works
Credit cards using "contactless" technology allow you to pay for stuff by waving your credit card in front of a special reader.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
articles 7/12
NY Times
Live Surgical Webcasts Play to Potential Patients
The Export of Democracy
Jefferson's ideas presaged the Bush doctrine.
Islam does incubate terrorism
By Mark Steyn
The Governor Is Still Pumped
A new biography presents Arnold Schwarzenegger as disciplined, focused and optimistic.
by John Fund
The Filtered Future
China's bid to divide the Internet.
By Tim Wu
Discard This Idea
A national I.D. doesn’t make sense.
by John J. Miller
Unstoppable?
The U.S. economy is back on a roll and even the oil question may be on its way to resolution.
by Irwin M. Stelzer
The Art of Pettiness
by Douglas Jones
AP
Goats Hired to Ease Wildfire Danger
LOS ANGELES - Goats grazing on 12 acres of brush at San Pedro's Peck Park Canyon for the past two weeks should have the wildfire danger eliminated this week.
SF Weekly
Say-It-Ain't-So Joe
Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any
Bishops Riot as Da Vinci Code Film Starts Production
BRUSSELS—In response to Newsweek's publication of portions of the screenplay for the forthcoming Ron Howard-directed film of the Da Vinci Code, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist Bishops from around the world began riots which killed at least sixteen people in major metropolitan areas.
Police clashed with anti-Ron Howard demonstrators in Brussels and London, killing at least three people on Thursday as protests spread over areport about how the film depicts astronaut Tom Hanks rescuing Mary Magdalene from an abusive relationship behind enemy lines in Seattle.
The unrest came a day after riots in the city of Paris left four people dead —the worst anti-Ron Howard protests in France since the death of Jerry Lewis in 2001. Howard's publicist announced at a press conference Wednesday that "These bishops are animals; the film is just a simple story, just a story. Opie is ticked off."
PETA Protests Treatment of Wookies
PRINCETON, N.J.—The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Wednesday called on federal investigators to shut down public display of the film Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, accusing its director George Lucas of mistreating Wookies, the shaggy giants used in the filming of the movie.
In making its claims at a news conference, PETA showed a videotape it said was covertly filmed by a staffer working undercover at Lucasfilm Ltd. The 273-page report PETA has given to the U.S. Department of Agriculture depicts frightened Wookies being yanked from their cages and handled roughly by aggressive and often cursing film technicians.
PETA spokeswoman Laura Isrington said, "Despite their savage countenance, Wookies are loyal and trusting—these are sacred tenets of Wookie society." Lucasfilm spokesman Jack Henner noted that Wookie tempers are short, and when angered, "they can fly into a beserker rage and will not stop until the object of their distemper is sufficiently destroyed."
Henner insisted that Lucasfilm Ltd. takes great care of all the galactic species in its charge, and its work with Wookies also helps develop medicines to treat diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and severe hair loss.
Live Surgical Webcasts Play to Potential Patients
The Export of Democracy
Jefferson's ideas presaged the Bush doctrine.
Islam does incubate terrorism
By Mark Steyn
The Governor Is Still Pumped
A new biography presents Arnold Schwarzenegger as disciplined, focused and optimistic.
by John Fund
The Filtered Future
China's bid to divide the Internet.
By Tim Wu
Discard This Idea
A national I.D. doesn’t make sense.
by John J. Miller
Unstoppable?
The U.S. economy is back on a roll and even the oil question may be on its way to resolution.
by Irwin M. Stelzer
The Art of Pettiness
by Douglas Jones
AP
Goats Hired to Ease Wildfire Danger
LOS ANGELES - Goats grazing on 12 acres of brush at San Pedro's Peck Park Canyon for the past two weeks should have the wildfire danger eliminated this week.
SF Weekly
Say-It-Ain't-So Joe
Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any
Bishops Riot as Da Vinci Code Film Starts Production
BRUSSELS—In response to Newsweek's publication of portions of the screenplay for the forthcoming Ron Howard-directed film of the Da Vinci Code, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist Bishops from around the world began riots which killed at least sixteen people in major metropolitan areas.
Police clashed with anti-Ron Howard demonstrators in Brussels and London, killing at least three people on Thursday as protests spread over areport about how the film depicts astronaut Tom Hanks rescuing Mary Magdalene from an abusive relationship behind enemy lines in Seattle.
The unrest came a day after riots in the city of Paris left four people dead —the worst anti-Ron Howard protests in France since the death of Jerry Lewis in 2001. Howard's publicist announced at a press conference Wednesday that "These bishops are animals; the film is just a simple story, just a story. Opie is ticked off."
PETA Protests Treatment of Wookies
PRINCETON, N.J.—The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Wednesday called on federal investigators to shut down public display of the film Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, accusing its director George Lucas of mistreating Wookies, the shaggy giants used in the filming of the movie.
In making its claims at a news conference, PETA showed a videotape it said was covertly filmed by a staffer working undercover at Lucasfilm Ltd. The 273-page report PETA has given to the U.S. Department of Agriculture depicts frightened Wookies being yanked from their cages and handled roughly by aggressive and often cursing film technicians.
PETA spokeswoman Laura Isrington said, "Despite their savage countenance, Wookies are loyal and trusting—these are sacred tenets of Wookie society." Lucasfilm spokesman Jack Henner noted that Wookie tempers are short, and when angered, "they can fly into a beserker rage and will not stop until the object of their distemper is sufficiently destroyed."
Henner insisted that Lucasfilm Ltd. takes great care of all the galactic species in its charge, and its work with Wookies also helps develop medicines to treat diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and severe hair loss.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Once a Baseball Cathedral in Detroit, Now Neglected and Decrepit
The official hotel for Tuesday's All-Star Game is in Dearborn, Mich., and most players will take buses to Comerica Park, in downtown Detroit, for the festivities. On their way, they may pass another stadium and have the same reaction Derek Jeter did last week.
Jeter and Jorge Posada were in town with the Yankees, staying in Dearborn, and their car service took them past Tiger Stadium. Both had played there, but Jeter's memories ran deeper. He is from Kalamazoo, Mich., and attended games there as a boy, sitting in the outfield lower deck to watch the visiting Yankees. Jeter and Posada wondered why the park was still standing.
"We were saying, 'What are they going to do?' " Jeter said. "They probably should tear it down if they're going to just let it sit there and rot. Either keep it up, or tear it down and put some kind of monument there. I don't think it's fair to just let it sit there and rot."
But that is what is happening at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, a famous baseball address. With the All-Star Game - and tomorrow's home run derby - taking place less than two miles away, Tiger Stadium is closed to the public, just another abandoned building in a city full of them.
"It's like the old lady sitting in the corner with nobody paying any attention to her," Ernie Harwell, the retired Tigers broadcaster, said at Comerica Park last week. "And the young debutante here's getting all the attention."
There is a statue of Harwell at Comerica Park, a sturdy, brick-and-steel palace with a carousel, a Ferris wheel and a center-field fountain. The Tigers are eager to promote the park, which has not caught on with many fans. The team has not played host to any playoff games since moving there in 2000, and the All-Star Game is a showcase.
Tiger Stadium, built in 1912, is a sensitive topic for the team and the city. The Tigers refer most questions to the city, and the city refers reporters to a prepared statement. When a Detroit television station, WXYZ, tried to interview a city official about Tiger Stadium last week, he turned his back and walked away.
The station reported that the city had given the Tigers' owner, Mike Illitch, $2.5 million over the last five years to maintain Tiger Stadium and provide security. This year, the report said, Illitch reduced the annual maintenance fee to $200,000 from $400,000.
Michael J. Healy, the Tigers' All-Star week liaison, said in an interview last week, "We've tried to clean up around the outside of Tiger Stadium, so that the purists who want to go over there and take their picture at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull will be able to do that."
But baseball purists may be disheartened. Tiger Stadium is a ghost town. It had its last game on Sept. 27, 1999, and has been closed to the public since, except for three collegiate and semipro games in 2001. A nearby billboard advertises the All-Star Game, but there will be no events at Tiger Stadium.
"It would have been so cool if they could have the home run derby there," said C. J. Nitkowski, a former Tigers pitcher who started the last night game at Tiger Stadium. "It would have been so much more fun. Guys would be launching balls out of the stadium. That would have been a great idea."
Healy said Major League Baseball had expressed some interest in having an All-Star event at Tiger Stadium, but the team was worried about safety because "the ballpark's interior is in disrepair."
Last Saturday, at the entrance to the Tigers' old offices, potato chip bags, candy wrappers and weeds clustered at the step. The numerals for the street address - 2121 - were barely visible over the glass door. Above it were Tigers logos, a newer one painted over an older version, chipping away so badly that they blended.
Inside, a ceiling tile rested in a hanging light fixture. A guard waved off a reporter and disappeared through a side door.
A plaque designating Tiger Stadium as a historical landmark was still there, though a Ty Cobb plaque was moved to Comerica last Friday. Faded orange Tigers paws still covered the park's exterior and sidewalks, leading to nowhere.
"It's like they played the last game, locked the door and walked away," Tony DeLuca, a visitor from Philadelphia, said last week. "See ya."
Ticket windows remained - complete with the blue Will Call sign - but the blinds were drawn. The only pronouncement that the Tigers had moved was at the main box office, near a deserted food court, where four white signs were taped to the ticket windows: Tickets Now On Sale At Comerica Park.
The chain-link players' parking lot was locked, but empty, beside the Fisher Freeway. Around the corner, on Cochrane Street, there was graffiti on the walls, a dangling sheet of metal and exposed wires overhanging the sidewalk. A man slept against the stadium, across the street from an abandoned brick storefront.
That was a common sight. Hoot Robinson's, a bar Babe Ruth is said to have frequented, was closed for good. So was a nearby memorabilia store. "Go Away!" the sign on the door said last week. The creaky ballpark was only slightly more inviting.
"They really don't know what they want to do with it, but people still come to see it," said Keith Davis, who works at another memorabilia store. "They need to open it up and put a dome on it and make it into a shelter for the homeless. That would be a beautiful thing."
Peter C. Riley, a former Tigers employee, works at Brooks Lumber, which borders the park and was supposedly the landing place for a Kirk Gibson home run in 1983. Riley is the president of Michigan & Trumbull, the group that was host to the collegiate and semipro games, which drew about 6,000 fans.
Riley has made proposals to pay for the upkeep and maintenance of the ballpark, but the city has rejected them. He was discouraged that the city had refused to open the park for tours or for a possible minor league team.
"It's not necessarily going to be around forever," Riley said. "But in the time you've got it, why not make the best of it? It's really a complete and utter travesty, because there is no good explanation, or one that should be accepted, anyway."
Gary Glaser, who produced a documentary that Riley financed called "Stranded at the Corner," said he believed Illitch was content to leave the site undeveloped so it would not divert attention from Comerica Park.
"The city is not going to do anything Illitch doesn't sign off on," Glaser said. "It's becoming a very contentious issue."
Sylvia Crawford, supervising publicist for Detroit, said the city had listened to community groups by keeping the stadium standing.
"The reason the stadium is not torn down is because the city yielded to calls by preservationists and fan groups that wanted to see the stadium stay," she said.
Some redevelopment proposals have included preserving the field. The Detroit News reported in March that one plan would have converted the stadium into an amusement park, and another would have included a fitness center with a running track around the upper deck. Other proposals have included condominiums or a Wal-Mart store.
"We've seen a few creative ideas," Derrick Miller, chief administrative officer for the city, said in an interview last Friday. "But we want to see the ideas associated with the money in order to make it a reality."
The Detroit Free Press estimated that it could cost $3.5 million to $4 million to tear down Tiger Stadium. Instead of doing that, the city has let the building stand, theoretically to show developers.
But in the statement, the city said that no serious proposals were under consideration. The ballpark remains, a sad reminder of rich history and modern-day blight.
"You drive by it and you have a little pang every now and then, because it's standing there and it's going to fall down," Harwell said. "People have had a lot of grandiose ideas about what to do with it, but nobody's had the financial backing, so it's just sitting there. And eventually it's either going to collapse, or they're going to knock it down with a wrecking ball. That's inevitable, I think. It's just too bad."
Harwell has not been to Tiger Stadium since 2000, when Billy Crystal invited him for the filming of the television movie "61*." Alan Trammell, the Tigers' manager and the former star shortstop for the team, took visitors inside as recently as last year. When Trammell tried to do so again this year, he could not find a guard to let him in.
"It's just falling apart," Trammell said. "You see some of the wood that hangs from the upper deck. The press box was on top, and there's a big panel falling off. All the padding around the outfield has been gone for years; you can see the paint that's chipped off it.
"I went in our dugout to go into the home clubhouse. You go down a couple of steps and you make a left, and it was dark down there and I stepped in some water, because I couldn't see. And they had a gate closed so you couldn't go all the way up the tunnel. But I'm sure if I would have, the clubhouse would have been locked."
There is no comparable situation in the major leagues. Seventeen teams (not including the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals) have moved to new stadiums since 1981. Thirteen of the old parks have been torn down.
Two, in San Diego and San Francisco, are used by N.F.L. teams. Another, the Astrodome in Houston, is used for high school football and may soon house a professional soccer team. Only Tiger Stadium is shuttered.
The closest comparison - and the nightmare for many Detroit fans - is probably Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. When the Phillies moved out in 1970, the ballpark became a wasteland, overgrown with weeds, vandalized and damaged by a fire.
It was razed, finally, in June 1976. The Phillies played host to the All-Star Game the next month.
Jeter and Jorge Posada were in town with the Yankees, staying in Dearborn, and their car service took them past Tiger Stadium. Both had played there, but Jeter's memories ran deeper. He is from Kalamazoo, Mich., and attended games there as a boy, sitting in the outfield lower deck to watch the visiting Yankees. Jeter and Posada wondered why the park was still standing.
"We were saying, 'What are they going to do?' " Jeter said. "They probably should tear it down if they're going to just let it sit there and rot. Either keep it up, or tear it down and put some kind of monument there. I don't think it's fair to just let it sit there and rot."
But that is what is happening at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, a famous baseball address. With the All-Star Game - and tomorrow's home run derby - taking place less than two miles away, Tiger Stadium is closed to the public, just another abandoned building in a city full of them.
"It's like the old lady sitting in the corner with nobody paying any attention to her," Ernie Harwell, the retired Tigers broadcaster, said at Comerica Park last week. "And the young debutante here's getting all the attention."
There is a statue of Harwell at Comerica Park, a sturdy, brick-and-steel palace with a carousel, a Ferris wheel and a center-field fountain. The Tigers are eager to promote the park, which has not caught on with many fans. The team has not played host to any playoff games since moving there in 2000, and the All-Star Game is a showcase.
Tiger Stadium, built in 1912, is a sensitive topic for the team and the city. The Tigers refer most questions to the city, and the city refers reporters to a prepared statement. When a Detroit television station, WXYZ, tried to interview a city official about Tiger Stadium last week, he turned his back and walked away.
The station reported that the city had given the Tigers' owner, Mike Illitch, $2.5 million over the last five years to maintain Tiger Stadium and provide security. This year, the report said, Illitch reduced the annual maintenance fee to $200,000 from $400,000.
Michael J. Healy, the Tigers' All-Star week liaison, said in an interview last week, "We've tried to clean up around the outside of Tiger Stadium, so that the purists who want to go over there and take their picture at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull will be able to do that."
But baseball purists may be disheartened. Tiger Stadium is a ghost town. It had its last game on Sept. 27, 1999, and has been closed to the public since, except for three collegiate and semipro games in 2001. A nearby billboard advertises the All-Star Game, but there will be no events at Tiger Stadium.
"It would have been so cool if they could have the home run derby there," said C. J. Nitkowski, a former Tigers pitcher who started the last night game at Tiger Stadium. "It would have been so much more fun. Guys would be launching balls out of the stadium. That would have been a great idea."
Healy said Major League Baseball had expressed some interest in having an All-Star event at Tiger Stadium, but the team was worried about safety because "the ballpark's interior is in disrepair."
Last Saturday, at the entrance to the Tigers' old offices, potato chip bags, candy wrappers and weeds clustered at the step. The numerals for the street address - 2121 - were barely visible over the glass door. Above it were Tigers logos, a newer one painted over an older version, chipping away so badly that they blended.
Inside, a ceiling tile rested in a hanging light fixture. A guard waved off a reporter and disappeared through a side door.
A plaque designating Tiger Stadium as a historical landmark was still there, though a Ty Cobb plaque was moved to Comerica last Friday. Faded orange Tigers paws still covered the park's exterior and sidewalks, leading to nowhere.
"It's like they played the last game, locked the door and walked away," Tony DeLuca, a visitor from Philadelphia, said last week. "See ya."
Ticket windows remained - complete with the blue Will Call sign - but the blinds were drawn. The only pronouncement that the Tigers had moved was at the main box office, near a deserted food court, where four white signs were taped to the ticket windows: Tickets Now On Sale At Comerica Park.
The chain-link players' parking lot was locked, but empty, beside the Fisher Freeway. Around the corner, on Cochrane Street, there was graffiti on the walls, a dangling sheet of metal and exposed wires overhanging the sidewalk. A man slept against the stadium, across the street from an abandoned brick storefront.
That was a common sight. Hoot Robinson's, a bar Babe Ruth is said to have frequented, was closed for good. So was a nearby memorabilia store. "Go Away!" the sign on the door said last week. The creaky ballpark was only slightly more inviting.
"They really don't know what they want to do with it, but people still come to see it," said Keith Davis, who works at another memorabilia store. "They need to open it up and put a dome on it and make it into a shelter for the homeless. That would be a beautiful thing."
Peter C. Riley, a former Tigers employee, works at Brooks Lumber, which borders the park and was supposedly the landing place for a Kirk Gibson home run in 1983. Riley is the president of Michigan & Trumbull, the group that was host to the collegiate and semipro games, which drew about 6,000 fans.
Riley has made proposals to pay for the upkeep and maintenance of the ballpark, but the city has rejected them. He was discouraged that the city had refused to open the park for tours or for a possible minor league team.
"It's not necessarily going to be around forever," Riley said. "But in the time you've got it, why not make the best of it? It's really a complete and utter travesty, because there is no good explanation, or one that should be accepted, anyway."
Gary Glaser, who produced a documentary that Riley financed called "Stranded at the Corner," said he believed Illitch was content to leave the site undeveloped so it would not divert attention from Comerica Park.
"The city is not going to do anything Illitch doesn't sign off on," Glaser said. "It's becoming a very contentious issue."
Sylvia Crawford, supervising publicist for Detroit, said the city had listened to community groups by keeping the stadium standing.
"The reason the stadium is not torn down is because the city yielded to calls by preservationists and fan groups that wanted to see the stadium stay," she said.
Some redevelopment proposals have included preserving the field. The Detroit News reported in March that one plan would have converted the stadium into an amusement park, and another would have included a fitness center with a running track around the upper deck. Other proposals have included condominiums or a Wal-Mart store.
"We've seen a few creative ideas," Derrick Miller, chief administrative officer for the city, said in an interview last Friday. "But we want to see the ideas associated with the money in order to make it a reality."
The Detroit Free Press estimated that it could cost $3.5 million to $4 million to tear down Tiger Stadium. Instead of doing that, the city has let the building stand, theoretically to show developers.
But in the statement, the city said that no serious proposals were under consideration. The ballpark remains, a sad reminder of rich history and modern-day blight.
"You drive by it and you have a little pang every now and then, because it's standing there and it's going to fall down," Harwell said. "People have had a lot of grandiose ideas about what to do with it, but nobody's had the financial backing, so it's just sitting there. And eventually it's either going to collapse, or they're going to knock it down with a wrecking ball. That's inevitable, I think. It's just too bad."
Harwell has not been to Tiger Stadium since 2000, when Billy Crystal invited him for the filming of the television movie "61*." Alan Trammell, the Tigers' manager and the former star shortstop for the team, took visitors inside as recently as last year. When Trammell tried to do so again this year, he could not find a guard to let him in.
"It's just falling apart," Trammell said. "You see some of the wood that hangs from the upper deck. The press box was on top, and there's a big panel falling off. All the padding around the outfield has been gone for years; you can see the paint that's chipped off it.
"I went in our dugout to go into the home clubhouse. You go down a couple of steps and you make a left, and it was dark down there and I stepped in some water, because I couldn't see. And they had a gate closed so you couldn't go all the way up the tunnel. But I'm sure if I would have, the clubhouse would have been locked."
There is no comparable situation in the major leagues. Seventeen teams (not including the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals) have moved to new stadiums since 1981. Thirteen of the old parks have been torn down.
Two, in San Diego and San Francisco, are used by N.F.L. teams. Another, the Astrodome in Houston, is used for high school football and may soon house a professional soccer team. Only Tiger Stadium is shuttered.
The closest comparison - and the nightmare for many Detroit fans - is probably Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. When the Phillies moved out in 1970, the ballpark became a wasteland, overgrown with weeds, vandalized and damaged by a fire.
It was razed, finally, in June 1976. The Phillies played host to the All-Star Game the next month.
articles 7/11
USA Today
Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime
Ordinary Americans are being turned into 'mules' - unwitting collaborators who reship goods bought with stolen identities
How agents busted Nigerian reshipping ring
Recruits were wooed with gifts, flowers
Don't be a mule
How a reshipment gets done
Hollow Point
by Noam Scheiber
Aspen Times
Clinton: Global warming an opportunity
Former president says U.S. should stick it out in Iraq
The Mother of All Connections
A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn
Neoconservatism's Big Tent
How distinctively neoconservative is President Bush's foreign policy?
by Paul Mirengoff
Property Rights Are Civil Rights
Opposition to the Kelo decision crosses racial and party lines.
by John Fund
Their Will Be Done
How the Supreme Court sows moral anarchy.
by Robert Bork
A gender nomination?
by Robert Novak
Conservatives are privately urging that President Bush replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with another woman in an effort to disarm feminist opposition.
London's terrorist blitz
by Cal Thomas
The words heard most often by political leaders, commentators and citizens in the aftermath of the London terrorist bombings were 'shocked, but not surprised.'
A judge with no agenda
by John Leo
No 'agents of social change,' please, on the Supreme Court. We need a modest and nonideological justice who is determined not to impose his or her politics from the bench.
Our House of Lords
by Michael Barone
The Supreme Court is our House of Lords. It is a deliberately, necessarily unrepresentative body of government that from time to time makes binding decisions on public policy -- some of which spark great protest.
Terrorism Lessons From 1870
By Arnold Kling
Up to this point, however, moderate Muslims have seemed paralyzed. We might wonder why this is the case.
Spy Granny
By Val MacQueen
Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror
Law enforcement officials want to eavesdrop on air passengers' internet use with a court order. The federal agencies are concerned that terror attacks could be coordinated using new in-flight broadband connections.
By Kevin Poulsen.
AP
Housing Markets Pricing Out Middle Class
Cincinnati Enquirer
The torch is passed
Felipe Lopez fulfilling Larkin's prediction with outstanding play
Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime
Ordinary Americans are being turned into 'mules' - unwitting collaborators who reship goods bought with stolen identities
How agents busted Nigerian reshipping ring
Recruits were wooed with gifts, flowers
Don't be a mule
How a reshipment gets done
Hollow Point
by Noam Scheiber
Aspen Times
Clinton: Global warming an opportunity
Former president says U.S. should stick it out in Iraq
The Mother of All Connections
A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda.
by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn
Neoconservatism's Big Tent
How distinctively neoconservative is President Bush's foreign policy?
by Paul Mirengoff
Property Rights Are Civil Rights
Opposition to the Kelo decision crosses racial and party lines.
by John Fund
Their Will Be Done
How the Supreme Court sows moral anarchy.
by Robert Bork
A gender nomination?
by Robert Novak
Conservatives are privately urging that President Bush replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with another woman in an effort to disarm feminist opposition.
London's terrorist blitz
by Cal Thomas
The words heard most often by political leaders, commentators and citizens in the aftermath of the London terrorist bombings were 'shocked, but not surprised.'
A judge with no agenda
by John Leo
No 'agents of social change,' please, on the Supreme Court. We need a modest and nonideological justice who is determined not to impose his or her politics from the bench.
Our House of Lords
by Michael Barone
The Supreme Court is our House of Lords. It is a deliberately, necessarily unrepresentative body of government that from time to time makes binding decisions on public policy -- some of which spark great protest.
Terrorism Lessons From 1870
By Arnold Kling
Up to this point, however, moderate Muslims have seemed paralyzed. We might wonder why this is the case.
Spy Granny
By Val MacQueen
Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror
Law enforcement officials want to eavesdrop on air passengers' internet use with a court order. The federal agencies are concerned that terror attacks could be coordinated using new in-flight broadband connections.
By Kevin Poulsen.
AP
Housing Markets Pricing Out Middle Class
Cincinnati Enquirer
The torch is passed
Felipe Lopez fulfilling Larkin's prediction with outstanding play
Sunday, July 10, 2005
articles 7/10
Please Appease Me
by James Joyner
George Galloway, Juan Cole, and Tariq Ali explain 7/7.
Kicking the Can
By John Luik
New research shows it's time to accept some hard truths about soft drinks.
Victory in Spite of All Terror
The resoluteness of the Blair government and the British people could well mean that July 7 will turn out to be a setback for al Qaeda.by William Kristol
Withdrawal Under Fire
By Michael Totten
Time Inside Business
Eat, Blink and Pay Up
NY Times Magazine
The Enigma of Damascus
President Bashar al-Assad and his Western-educated wife say they are transforming Syria into an open society. Should Syrians — or the White House — believe them?
NY Times Magazine
The Seat-Belt Solution
A quick look at the Fatality Analysis Reporting System data reveals a striking result: among children 2 and older, the death rate is no lower for those traveling in any kind of car seat than for those wearing seat belts.
NY Times Magazine
Will Any Organ Do?
Transplant surgeons are increasingly using organs from drug users, the obese and the very ill. But with little known for certain about the consequences, doctors are confronting complex medical and ethical questions
Newsweek
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter.
By Michael Isikoff
A Retail Revolution Turns 10
Amazon.com began as a three-person start-up in a converted garage; now some wonder if the company is spread too thin.
NY Times Magazine
Euthanasia for Babies?
Dutch doctors have proposed a procedure for infant mercy killing. Is this humane or barbaric?
Faked Research Results on Rise?
Charges of scientific misconduct are increasing in the United States, up 50 percent from 2003. Pressure to publish and competition for grant money push some scientists to falsify data, fabricate patients and plagiarize.
When All Is Lost, Call the Airport
LAX security workers collect -- and try to return -- cellphones, laptops, wallets, even passports.
Using Tech to Thwart Terror
More technology is in the pipeline to battle terrorism, but skeptics question if it will be enough.
Back to Narnia
Harry Potter’s mother country.
by James Joyner
George Galloway, Juan Cole, and Tariq Ali explain 7/7.
Kicking the Can
By John Luik
New research shows it's time to accept some hard truths about soft drinks.
Victory in Spite of All Terror
The resoluteness of the Blair government and the British people could well mean that July 7 will turn out to be a setback for al Qaeda.by William Kristol
Withdrawal Under Fire
By Michael Totten
Time Inside Business
Eat, Blink and Pay Up
NY Times Magazine
The Enigma of Damascus
President Bashar al-Assad and his Western-educated wife say they are transforming Syria into an open society. Should Syrians — or the White House — believe them?
NY Times Magazine
The Seat-Belt Solution
A quick look at the Fatality Analysis Reporting System data reveals a striking result: among children 2 and older, the death rate is no lower for those traveling in any kind of car seat than for those wearing seat belts.
NY Times Magazine
Will Any Organ Do?
Transplant surgeons are increasingly using organs from drug users, the obese and the very ill. But with little known for certain about the consequences, doctors are confronting complex medical and ethical questions
Newsweek
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter.
By Michael Isikoff
A Retail Revolution Turns 10
Amazon.com began as a three-person start-up in a converted garage; now some wonder if the company is spread too thin.
NY Times Magazine
Euthanasia for Babies?
Dutch doctors have proposed a procedure for infant mercy killing. Is this humane or barbaric?
Faked Research Results on Rise?
Charges of scientific misconduct are increasing in the United States, up 50 percent from 2003. Pressure to publish and competition for grant money push some scientists to falsify data, fabricate patients and plagiarize.
When All Is Lost, Call the Airport
LAX security workers collect -- and try to return -- cellphones, laptops, wallets, even passports.
Using Tech to Thwart Terror
More technology is in the pipeline to battle terrorism, but skeptics question if it will be enough.
Back to Narnia
Harry Potter’s mother country.
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