The House passed a bill, now to go to the Senate, to purify the climate. Its prime mechanism will be to require companies to buy pollution allowances from companies that don’t pollute as much as they are allowed to. The House narrowly passed an ambitious
Joshua Muravchik believes that the uprisings in Iran will mark the beginning of the end of radical, jihadist Islam: Even if the Iranian regime succeeds in suppressing the protests and imposes the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by force of bullets, mass arrests and hired
The two posts below come from two different articles and are based on two different scientific discoveries. If you read the original links, you will find that the time periods they describe overlap. Both deal with the proto-European cave-dwellers when they were dwelling alongside the
Archeologists have found a hollowed-out bird bone, into which was carved five finger holes and a mouthpiece, making a flute. Scientists dated it at more than 35,000 years ago, which means it was made in the last major ice age. It was found in a
Some scientists think they have discovered what happened to the Neanderthals. The more advanced, more highly evolved homo sapiens ate them: One of science’s most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the Neanderthals – may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading
Michael Jackson died. Also Farrah Fawcett. What can we say?
The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No one could find him. Foul play was suspected. Then he turned up. He said he was getting away from it all by hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Then the story
Michael Gerson raises some interesting points about how PBS is now enforcing (with some odd exceptions) ban on religious programming: On Tuesday, the Public Broadcasting System’s board of directors decided that member stations could no longer add religious programming. The board was applying a 1985
Despite Marx’s dialectical materialism and all that about religion being the opiate of the people, the Communist Party USA has started an initiative to recruit people of faith. The Communist Party USA has created a new Religion Commission to reach out to “welcome people of
The Touchstone Magazine blog notes a curious phenomenon: The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary illustrates the truth of the saying “to be Reformed is to be ecumenical”, says the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed
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