Monday, November 9



Confessing a care for clones

Disclaimer: I’m not really going to talk about stem cells in this column because first, I don’t know what they are; second, I’ve already been tested for them; and last, I don’t understand or care why everyone gets their knickers in a twist whenever someone mentions them. Read more...



Letters

A-bomb justified during “˜total war’ It’s August and time for the annual guilt-fest over the U.S. use of the atomic bomb in World War II. But what seem to be missed are the events leading to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ““ the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, the Rape of Nanking, the attack on Pearl Harbor without a prior declaration of war (at a time when international law still meant something), the Bataan Death March and the vicious Pacific island battles in which neither side showed an inclination to surrender. Read more...


“˜Design’ theory hurts progress

Weeks ago, President Bush said intelligent design should be taught with evolution in classrooms. Intelligent design, at its core, assumes that the complexity in the world, especially life, cannot be achieved except by the design of a supernatural intelligence. Read more...


World embracing U.S., democracy

We are told ad infinitum how the rest of the world hates the United States. From repeated accusations of imperialism and cultural insensitivity, universal ire is supposedly at our doorstep. Read more...