The Obama administration is considering issuing an executive order that would allow so-called "preventive detention" of terrorism suspects…
Read moreNewsweek science writer Sharon Begley pens an often wickedly funny critique of evolutionary psychology this week, and I blog about it briefly on Sc…
Read moreI know I'm coming in late on this, but I gather that the right-wing blogosphere has been going bananas because President Barack Obama took his …
Read moreI've been neglecting the science segment of this blog, but today on Science 's online news service (ScienceNOW) I write about a paper report…
Read moreA waste of fossil fuels, a waste of human energy, and quite frankly, a scam on those people who can afford gardeners because these guys spend all the…
Read moreDavid Rohde, who while at the Christian Science Monitor was one of the first journalists to expose the Serb massacre of 8000 Muslim men at Srebrenic…
Read moreI'm just as willing as anyone to believe that the Iranian election was rigged; and of course I condemn the brutal suppression of demonstrators in…
Read moreAdy Barkan has a particularly clear and cogent commentary on Slate , posted Friday, about the possible consequences of Judge Jeffrey White's rul…
Read moreThe New York Times nails President Obama and his Justice Department in an editorial today entitled "A Bad Call on Gay Rights." At issue i…
Read moreCould it be that all the blather about a nuclear-armed Iran is just Israeli leaders' way of distracting us from the real matter at hand, the peac…
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