On the announcement that France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg have created a defense union, President Jacques Chirac said,
Quite naturally a multi-polar world is being created, whether one likes it or not. It’s inevitable. For balance to exist, there will have to be a strong Europe. Relations between the European Union and the United States will […]
How should Iraq’s economy be reformed? Should a version of Russian-style “shock (and awe?) therapy” be employed or a more incremental Chinese approach? David Warsh touches on this issue with some perspective from economists who were involved in Eastern European economic reconstruction.
What is crucial to success is adapting any reforms to local rules […]
The Free State Project, at first glance, appears to be a pie-in-the-sky libertarian plan to create a little lib utopia on earth. These ideas come and go. There’s the plan to create a low regulation, low tax region in Costa Rica (Limon Real) and there’s the wild idea that Somalia is a great […]
Scientists have found stem cells in baby teeth. Can we now get over the claim that turning human embryoes into stem cell farms is the future in this research?
“Baby Teeth Revealed as Source of Stem Cells“
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Has actor Ron Silver been ostracized by fellow Hollywood types because of his pro-war stance? I’ll let you be the judge:
Silver, a cofounder of the Creative Coalition, a generally liberal Hollywood activist organization, was an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq.
Asked if he has received any flak from other celebrities such as […]
If Harvard law professor Terry Fisher is right, then those who are downloading illegal songs of the Net to stick it to Big Music are inflicting a lot of collateral damage. Let me quote from Orin Kerr’s post:
I understand that the record companies have done some pretty bad stuff in the past, and of […]
Steven Taylor (of Poliblog fame) ends his column on the post-Iraq War world with this:
There can be no doubt that it would ultimately be a better world if we existed in a state of mutual love, but clearly the world is not made up of the loving. There are numerous individuals and states that wish […]
Rich Galen might be a hypocondriac. Dealing with heart bypass surgery and all its complications probably had something to do with that. What Galen’s SARS story does offer is much needed entertainment on top of the scaremongering.
“SARS Boy”
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In a first for Packers fans, first round draft pick, Nick Barnett e-mailed this message to his new fans:
Dear Packers Fans -
Being drafted yesterday was exciting to begin with, but being drafted by the
Green Bay Packers just added to the experience.
Nothing can beat playing for an organization like this, with such great
tradition, an excellent coaching […]
I have no insight to offer on the Packers’ two draft picks. I’ve never heard of either of them. What I am happy with is the emphasis on defense. Mike Sherman didn’t pull any wild deals to draft a quarterback as the heir to Brett Favre. That’s probably because he took […]
On its weblog, The New Republic has now labled Sen. Santorum a bigot and tells us the GOP is THE place for overt and covert bigotry in American politics. Based on this, I’m a bigot in the view of The New Republic because I don’t think acting on homosexual desires constitutes moral behavior. […]
Yippee!! (as in Anakin from Phantom Menace) Based on the Bear’s Ecosystem, TAM is no longer an Insignificant Microbe. It’s now a Slithering Reptile. This is as good a time as any to bleg for links. If you’re a reader who has a weblog, consider putting TAM on your blogroll. […]
I’m getting tired of Andrew Sullivan going off on a moral crusade to purge the Republican Party of anyone who finds gay sexual acts to be immoral and to label people with those beliefs “intolerant.” He’s already called me (not directly) a “fool” because I’m tolerant, yet still support the Republican Party. I’m also […]
Patrick Ruffini takes a risk and analyzes Rep. Dick Gephart’s (D-MO) solution to our heath care crisis. How his eyes didn’t completely glaze over when mentioning SCHIP and COBRA is beyond me.
“Gephardt’s Big Empty Bang“
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Newt Gingrich just might have a point about the ineptitude of the State Department. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Elizabeth Jones told the AFP, “What Gingrich says does not interest me. He is an idiot and you can publish that.” How very diplomatic of her. Was that the approach taken […]
