I sat in the car in the parking garage of my office this morning, listening to an LSU scientist talk about the oil spill on a radio show. He said that before this is over, we could see oil onshore stretching from Central Texas to all along the western coast of Florida. He explained that…

This situation is going from bad to worse, fast: Kim Jong-il has reportedly ordered a mobilization of his armed forces. China is the only nation that can stop the crazed dictator from his brinksmanship. How do you deal rationally with a madman? Open thread on the prospect of a new Korean war — which, if…

Had you heard of the UK rape conviction of two small boys? I hadn’t, until reading British commentator Frank Furedi’s denunciation of the proceedings as a sick farce that teaches a lesson about the moral degeneration of British society — but not the one you might think. Furedi writes: British society has become so morally…

Sorry for yesterday’s light posting, and this morning’s. I was traveling in Washington yesterday, and had no access to the laptop. And I didn’t get home till midnight. Have mercy! Anyway, via The Browser, which you should be checking at least twice daily, comes a Walter Russell Mead talker laying down Mead’s Top Ten Lessons…

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