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January, 2004

Saturday, January 31, 2004

Enough Already

I'm tired of all the hoopla surrounding the Democratic nomination process. Politics fascinate me, but this is starting to get…...

Soldiers Get “Royal” Super Bowl Party

From Sports Illustrated: The Super Bowl parties for U.S. troops in Iraq will start hours before dawn, and there won't…...

Mayo Clinic To Test Out Synthetic Blood

Many trauma patients die on the way to the hospital due to loss of blood. The Mayo Clinic thinks it…...

There Is No Dark Side To Democracy

Amy Chua, Yale Law professor, has a new book out entitled "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds…...

Votes Per Gallon

Some of the candidates in this year's Presidential election may employ some hard-ball tactics, but we can assume they're not…...

Free Speech Is Free Speech

From Fox News: High school students performing a play they saw as a pro-democracy tale were disqualified from a theater…...

Farmers Upset Over Ad

From Fox News: Nearly everyone has seen the dairy industry's funny TV commercials. But some independent farmers have got a…...

Toddler Found Starved To Death

From the Akron Beacon Journal: Calling it the worst such case he had ever seen, a pathologist for the Stark…...

Friday, January 30, 2004

Legalizing Prostitution

Dean Esmay of Dean's World has written an essay about prostitution based on this Robert Heinlein quote: A whore should…...

Bush Has Accomplished A Lot

Many on the left would have you believe that George W. Bush has done very little during his term in…...

Exodus At The BBC Continues

According to the Associated Press Andrew Gilligan, a reporter, has resigned from the BBC, making him the third BBC employee…...

Bush Wants “Big Jump” In Defense Spending

From Yahoo News: The Bush administration will ask Congress to boost spending on missile defense by $1.2 billion next year…...

California Building Codes To Incorporate Feng Shui

From the New York Times: With a budget deficit of about $14 billion, California could use a major infusion of…...

Suprise Performer For Super Bowl Halftime

From Sports Illustrated: Janet Jackson, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Kid Rock and Nelly apparently weren't enough for CBS' 12 1/2-minute…...

Saudi Diplomats Being Deported

From the World Tribune via the Instapundit: The United States has ordered the expulsion of dozens of Saudi diplomats suspected…...

Scientists Have Figured Out SARS

From Independent News: Scientists have identified thestages in the evolution of the Sars virus that turned it from a simple…...

Whale of a Stench! - from MSNBC via Reuters

TAIPEI - Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm…...

Semantics

From CNN: The state's school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and replacing it with…...

Day Care Subsidies

From the Fargo Forum: Daily Discoveries Learning Center and Imagination Station in Moorhead will welcome kids for the last time…...

Rush Takes Bush To Task

From RushLimbaugh.com: On Thursday, I took two calls on the Bush proposal to increase the National Endowment for the Arts'…...

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Better Take Care Of Your Pets

From the Volokh Conspiracy: Washington state law criminally punishes people who "knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence" "[f]ail[] to provide…...

Military Is Sure Osama Will Be Caught

From SFGate.com: The U.S. military is "sure" it will catch Osama bin Laden this year, a spokesman said Thursday, but…...

Four Year Old Tests Positive For Cocaine

From Local6 News: Police in Troy want to know why a 4-year-old girl tested positive for cocaine. A test showed…...

Victimized Society

E-Claire has a great post about the slave reparations lawsuit: We have swung from one extreme to the other. The…...

Changes In The FCRA

While reading my February 2004 edition of PI Magazine, I came across an article about the recent changes to the…...

Loophole For Sex Offenders in Minnesota

From the Grand Forks Herald: When a sex offender convicted in Minnesota and deemed very likely to re-offend moves to…...

Antartica Warmer Than North Dakota

From the Bismarck Tribune: Allan Ashworth says his visit to Antarctica was like a tropical getaway from his hometown of…...

Godfather Of Soul Arrested

From Fox News: Soul singer James Brown (search) was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly pushed his wife to the floor…...

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Judge Throws Out Drug Testing Lawsuit

From the Anchorage Daily News: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a North Pole High School student…...

List Of People Saddam Bribed

The Middle East Media Research Institute has released a list of individuals, categorized by country, who may have received bribes…...

CBS Defends MoveOn Ad Decision

CBS has released a statement defending their decision to not air MoveOn.org's winning commercial from their Bush In 30 Seconds…...

NRA Blacklist

The National Rifle Association keeps a "blacklist" of anti-gun individuals. Recently, I came across this site, which essentially allows you…...

Girl Has X-Ray Vision

No, it doesn't appear to be a joke. A Russian teenager named Natasha Demkina has, by all reports, X-ray vision.…...

Nurses Indicted For Death Of Prisoner

From CNN: Singling out the actions of two nurses as "outrageous," a Florida grand jury indicted two women on manslaughter…...

BBC Chairman To Resign

From the BBC via the Instapundit: BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has resigned in the wake of Lord Hutton's criticisms of…...

New Approach To The Death Penalty

Despite feeling that their are some crimes which warrant death, I have never really been able to get behind the…...

The Bismarck Tribune Has A Blog

The Bismarck Tribune is looking for some bloggers to post to a new section of their website. From the looks…...

Kerry Using Botox?

From the New York Daily News: The down and dirty New Hampshire primary ends tonight - not a moment too…...

Its Cold Outside

To everybody on the east coast who has complained about the cold weather and icey roads, I have some news…...

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Optimism In A Cynical World

It seems like every time we turn on the television the media is telling us how miserable our lives are.…...

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