Eric Scheske

This is good, but did you arrest the Communists in Beijing that set up the policy that resulted in these abuses? > Several Chinese health workers have reportedly been arrested or sacked over claims that they forced people to have abortions or sterilisations. > China's state-owned media

The Washington Post is snickering about the FBI's renewed attempt to stomp on obscenity. It's the standard approach: (1) Indicate that porn has become a huge priority for the FBI, (2) contrast it with a more important issue (here, the need to defend the country against

Interesting piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. I distrust any analysis that divides people into two classes, but such an approach is often useful to understand a new way of understanding something. > Clarke divides people into probabilists and possibilists. Much modern scientific and governmental policy about disasters, he

I don't often have a chance to link to Alan Dershowitz or the other leftwing fanatics at The Huffington Post (this promising blog that I thought might give a balanced look at things has become relentlessly leftist). But this was a good one: > [An Amnesty International] report