Plead the First

Examining the idea of “Bush Derangement Syndrome“, Lex takes a look at why the President has engendered such strong feelings in his opposition. As I mentioned in the comments there, when taken individually, it’s all too easy to shrug off some of the administration’s affronts to our values, but when they’re all lined up, one […]

Jason Rosenhouse explains a few easy ways to spot bogus Intelligent Design arguments. Anti-evolutionists are skillful at burying the weaknesses of their arguments beneath a wealth of scientific jargon. This presents a problem for fair-minded non-scientists trying to determine where reality lies. If rivals in a debate make differing claims about the relationship between thermodynamics […]

At first, I was ambivalent. But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that the portrait of Jesus hanging in a West Virginia high school hallway should probably be taken down. The problem is not religion, or Jesus, or pictures of Jesus. The problem is government endorsement of a specific […]

At the moment, in the Latest News section of CNN’s website, one of the headlines reads: “Airport X ray shows everything, yes everything” The fifth headline after this reads: “Report: X-ray devices don’t see explosives in shoes”

In the wake of last week’s foiled terrorist plot, I blogged that a law enforcement approach seems to be a very effective method of dealing with the threats posed by terrorism. In his column today, George Will comes to a similar conclusion: The London plot against civil aviation confirmed a theme of an illuminating new […]

The Department of Homeland Security updated our threat level yesterday: August 11, 2006 – The United States Government has raised the nation’s threat level for the aviation sector to: Code Red or Severe for flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States Code Orange or High for all commercial aviation operating in […]

A terrorist plot to blow up passenger jets was thwarted by British authorities this week. It sounds like they did a great job, arresting a large portion of the people involved. And in this case, the threat seems to have been much more real than in some of the more recent terrorist arrests. However, the […]