Washington Post: Climate scientists armed with new data from deep in the ocean and far into space have found that Earth is absorbing much more heat than it is giving off, a conclusion they say validates projections of global warming.
Lead scientist James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, described the findings on the planet’s out-of-balance energy [...]
Spokesman Review:
Police have confirmed that the shooter involved in a standoff with police in Spokane Valley is dead, possibly of a self-inflicted gunshot.
SWAT teams had moved into the house after the Jeremy Douglas Stiffarm, 29, had been spotted by a remote camera lying motionless on the floor wearing a gas mask, police said.
Authorities had pumped [...]
There is a shoot-out going on about half a block away from my work this morning. It is unclear what exactly is going on, but we have heard numerous shots fired and there are cops all over the place.
I’ll update with the details when I find out more.
Update: KREM.com:
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office [...]
William Voegeli writes about the Social Security debate:
We know at least two things about the Democratic Party. First, it is preoccupied with economic inequality. Implying that the middle class had somehow vanished, Sen. John Edwards campaigned for a year with a showcase speech about two Americas, ‘one for people who are set for life, [who] [...]
The New York Times:
The Bush administration, facing a series of recent provocations from North Korea, is debating a plan to seek a United Nations resolution empowering all nations to intercept shipments in or out of the country that may contain nuclear materials or components, say senior administration officials and diplomats who have been briefed on [...]
I have been tagged.
So, here are five things that people with whom I generally associate think are really cool, but that leave me cold.
1) Open Office retty much everyone I know has become an Open Office fan with the result that I can’t read any documents they make unless they convert them to PDF [...]
This is a very enlightening Newsweek article:
We are all taught that saving is good—indeed, Americans are often chided for spending too much and saving too little. But what if the problem of today’s global economy is that people elsewhere, in Europe, Asia and Latin America, are saving too much and spending too little? Former Princeton [...]
Ryan Sager has a good article in the New York Post on some campaign finance reform efforts in Illinios:
ANYONE still clinging to the notion that cam paign-finance reformers are interested in ‘clean government’ solely for its own sake should take a look at Illinois — specifically a race for a state Supreme Court seat last [...]
Sebastian Mallaby writes in The Washington Post about challenges to establishing democracies, especially in oil rich nations:
It’s easy to want democracy for the Middle East. But what sort of democracy? Should American foreign policy focus on promoting elections, or on checks and balances? Is the crucial question how power is achieved? Or is it how [...]
Stanley Kurtz has written an interesting article on gender differences and why the radical feminist quest to androgynize society is doomed. It can however do great harm.
I find that this quest is not only impossible, but undesirable as well. Gender differences are a good thing. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aspire to [...]
