The COB blog says of the U.N.: "In the history of man, a more useless organization has never been chartered." ...
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"Just a decade ago, more than two-thirds of all drug research was conducted in Europe. Now, 60% is conducted in the United States," says Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, who blames deliberate government policies in nations that have adopted ...
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Jon Basil Utley has a striking story (PDF file) in The Freeman, available on the Foundation for Economic Education website. The story begins: My father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was executed at Vorkuta on the Arctic Circle in the Soviet Union on ...
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The incoming chairman of the House House Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell, is interviewed by Amanda Griscom Little for the environmentalist magazine Grist. Worth reading if you care about climate policy. (For what it is worth, I didn't disagree ...
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In the utterly frivolous category, we link to a list of the 100 top baby names for 2006. There definitely are some imaginative parents out there. "Aiden," which doesn't even appear in many baby name reference works, is the #1 ...
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The at-times entertaining ConWebWatch blog, which "keeps an eye on conservative news," was more entertaining than usual Friday. In a post castigating the accuracy of a CNSNews.com column by Christopher Adamo, it claimed (not for the first time), that the ...
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The proposal adopted by the District of Columbia City Council to give rehabilitated ex-cons a special protected status under the law in DC strangely seems to be staying under the radar of most of our nation's talk hosts, bloggers and ...
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A pledge made by newly-installed United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become personally involved in efforts to end the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan is being met with hope by members of the Project 21 black leadership network.  ...
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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are critical of the District of Columbia City Council's vote to give the NAACP $3.5 million in taxpayer money to relocate the NAACP's headquarters from Baltimore to the nation's capitol.  The NAACP ...
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David Hogberg writes: At first this column in the Sacramento Bee by Marc Weisbrot of the left-wing Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) seemed pretty unremarkable -- the usual silly nonsense about how government-run health care would be better ...
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