Timothy Burke, a professor at Swarthmore, comments on a yearly ritual, and yearly controversy at his college: Free Speech Kabuki
There’s a lot of discussion on campus this year about the annual “chalkings” that coincide with Coming Out week. They’ve been controversial before (as one student puts it in the campus newspaper, it’s a “predictable moment” […]
Seattle PI
In promising new research, stem cells worked remarkably well at easing symptoms of muscular dystrophy in dogs, an experiment that experts call a significant step toward treating people.”It’s a great breakthrough for all of us working on stem cells for muscular dystrophy,” said researcher Johnny Huard of the University of Pittsburgh, who wasn’t involved […]
Dave Hogg reviews One: The Movie, an independent film that asks people, both famous and not, twenty questions about life, the universe, and everything. The movie sounds fascinating, and I would like to see it some time.
He also posts the questions that are asked, they are quite interesting and I thought I would give my […]
Sfgate.com
Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the No. 2 post Wednesday for the minority GOP in the next Congress.Lott returned to the center of power by getting the position of vote-counting GOP whip, nosing out Sen. Lamar Alexander. […]
The Virginian-Pilot
What would you say if a man with $50,000 in a suitcase asked you to break the law?”I am not interested,” was a good start. Unfortunately, Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., kept talking. “I am sorry,” he said, “At this point, you know, we do business for a while, maybe I’ll be interested.”
Murtha’s comments on […]
CNN.com
From a second-floor bedroom in a storefront church, Elvira Arellano scanned the Internet for news of her son — a 7-year-old boy who had traveled to Mexico to ask that nation to help his family and others like them.Dozens of Web site links flashed on her screen. Many featured headlines about the boy’s appearance before […]
Michael J. Totten: A Perfect Storm?
A perfect storm may be brewing in Lebanon.I’ve been under Tornado Watch probably ten times or so in the American Midwest. Not once did a tornado touch down anywhere near me while I was on alert. Several tornadoes, though, blew through the area out of the blue with no warning […]
New York Times
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has taken the first step toward mounting a presidential candidacy, forming an organization on Friday to explore a White House run.
Mr. Giuliani stopped short of filing documents with the Federal Election Commission to create a presidential campaign committee, a step that Gov. Tom […]
This Weekly Standard article is well worth reading. Here is probably the key point:
The difficulties the Army has experienced in Iraq are due, in large measure, to the fact that the Defense Department forgot this historical lesson. Donald Rumsfeld tried to run a businesslike war. But warfare is not business; it is not […]
Jerusalem Post
Senior Hamas officials confirmed Monday that the organization had agreed with Fatah to name Mohammed Shabir to head the next Palestinian Authority unity government.Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy to the Damascus-based Hamas political bureau leader Khaled Mashaal, told The Associated Press in the Syrian capital that the two major factions have agreed on the nomination […]
