Republican Jonathan L. Payton is an otherwise obscure state legislator seeking reelection in Arizona. But Payton is also an intelligence officer in the Army Reserve and has asked... asked to be deployed to Iraq. He will report for duty only days … [Continue reading]
No Liquids!
Evidence that the move from protractors to supercomputers has imbued the scientific community with untoward hubris manifested in Prague last week, when a conclave of thuggish astronomers knocked the scrawniest planet out of our solar system. In a … [Continue reading]
Civil War
I sure hope Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig sobers up enough to follow the Tour de France doping scandal. With odds on favorites Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich tossed out before the race began, the road was neatly paved for American Floyd Landis to … [Continue reading]
Lake Geneva
While the President’s Billionaire tax cuts helped grease Warren Buffet’s transfer of thirty large to Bill Gates, they have forced the federal government into some convoluted choices when it comes to domestic spending. Despite a foiled plot to blow … [Continue reading]
All Turned Round
A few scant weeks ago, the Democrats, still searching for a charismatic avatar amid the many briny heads bobbing across a sea of feckless ineptitude, seemed nonetheless poised to take back Congress. Homeland Security’s equivocal D.C. budget cuts … [Continue reading]
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