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The science of limited government.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)

Jun 30, 2008; Berrun, George ... In "Undetermined" (June 2), Jim Manzi does a terrific job of explaining many breakthroughs in biological science. He's right to urge skepticism when researchers say they've found "the gene" for this or that, and he's right that we should hesitate to use such findings in formulating public ...

This is a great country.(The Week)

Jun 30, 2008 ... This is a great country. Even a black man with no ...

Looks like you can disown your family.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Looks like you can disown your family. When the nation first took note of Barack Obama's crackpot racist church, he made a great fuss about how it was woven into his life, the good and the not-so-good together, just like kin. But after the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a rancid white Catholic ...

John McCain has outlined some of the tough measures he would take against Iran: negotiating global sanctions against Iranian banks, freezing the assets of regime leaders and imposing a visa ban on them, launching a worldwide divestment campaign, and restricting Iran's supply of gasoline (for all Iran's oil, 25 percent of its refined gasoline is imported).(The Week)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... John McCain has outlined some of the tough measures he would take against Iran: negotiating global sanctions against Iranian banks, freezing the assets of regime leaders and imposing a visa ban on them, launching a worldwide divestment campaign, and restricting Iran's supply of gasoline ...

Scott McClellan met George W. Bush in Texas, followed him to Washington, then became one of the worst press secretaries in the history of the presidency.(The Week)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Scott McClellan met George W. Bush in Texas, followed him to Washington, then became one of the worst press secretaries in the history of the presidency. Garbage in, garbage out: Now he has written a tell-all book, repeating, in tones of outraged surprise, every hostile cliche about the ...

So Vanity Fair, the Debrett's of celebrity, pop history, and uber-babedom, has turned on Bill Clinton.(The Week)(Todd S. Purdum)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... So Vanity Fair, the Debrett's of celebrity, pop history, and uber-babedom, has turned on Bill Clinton. "The Comeback Id," by Todd S. Purdum, elicited howls of pain from its victim, and on some points the prestige journalist reported sloppily. The anti-Clinton Furies of the Right, ...

A triple whammy of bad economic news came out on the first Friday of June.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... A triple whammy of bad economic news came out on the first Friday of June. The unemployment rate for May was released, and it had jumped 0.5 percent over April. The price of oil, meanwhile, jumped $10 a barrel in one day. And the stock market dropped. But the statistics on growth, ...

McCain has gotten panned for his speech in New Orleans.(The Week ...)(John McCain)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... McCain has gotten panned for his speech in New Orleans. Giving a speech the night Obama clinched the nomination was unwise, highlighting as it did the contrast between Obama's smooth delivery and rapturous fans and McCain's lack of same. But the theme of the speech--that McCain intends to ...

It will be years before we see the last of those "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper stickers.(The Week ...)(President George W. Bush)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... It will be years before we see the last of those "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper stickers. The slogan has become an article of faith on the Left, and in recent years Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have conducted investigation after investigation in an effort to prove it ....

They think they get it ...(ironies of popular culture)

Jun 30, 2008; Goldberg, Jonah ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MY five-year-old daughter is now a Kung Fu Master. Or at least so she thinks. We saw Kung Fu Panda the other day, and immediately afterwards, with the speed it takes to pluck a pebble from the palm of a master, she was showing me all of her Kung Fu ...

Thanks to Gov. David Paterson, New York has become the third state to recognize same-sex marriages.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Thanks to Gov. David Paterson, New York has become the third state to recognize same-sex marriages. The high court of Massachusetts imposed the policy on the state in 2003. This year, California's supreme court ...

The city of Minneapolis made an odd move recently, restricting vehicle-idling time to three minutes in the name of the environment.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... The city of Minneapolis made an odd move recently, restricting vehicle-idling time to three minutes in the name of the environment. It is unclear what portion of the city's pollution comes from more-than-three-minute idling to begin with, so the ...

Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda operatives were arraigned at Guantanamo Bay on charges of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda operatives were arraigned at Guantanamo Bay on charges of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. Their military-commission trial is still months away, at best. For now, defense lawyers will zealously attack the ...

Speaking of hearts and minds, take heart from the recent example of Mosul, Iraq.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Speaking of hearts and minds, take heart from the recent example of Mosul, Iraq. The Iraqis and their helpers there chased away al-Qaeda. So bread returned to the bakeries--the local bread, called "sammoun." Why had it disappeared? Al-Qaeda had disallowed it ...

Al-Qaeda has attracted feminists' ire: because the terror group says that jihad is for men, not women.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Al-Qaeda has attracted feminists' ire: because the terror group says that jihad is for men, not women. Many Islamist women, via the Internet, are pleading for the right to be suicide bombers. And, of course, many of them are. Hamas is more moderate ...

The Wall Street Journal is keeping an eye on the U.N.(The Week ...)(United Nations)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... The Wall Street Journal is keeping an eye on the U.N. The General Assembly elected Miguel d'Escoto its president. And it made the government of Burma one of its vice presidents. Remember d'Escoto? Think back to Sandinista days: He was their foreign minister. In 1985, he won the Lenin ...

The U.N. and its agencies offer regular showcases for Third World monsters.(The Week ...)(United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... The U.N. and its agencies offer regular showcases for Third World monsters. This time, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization held a conference in Rome, its headquarters, to discuss the current crisis in supplies of food and oil. FAO rules allow countries to choose their own ...

After years in decline, the Maoist "Shining Path" movement has made a startling comeback in Peru.(The Week ...)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... After years in decline, the Maoist "Shining Path" movement has made a startling comeback in Peru. The 1992 capture of its leader, an ex-philosophy professor named Abimael Guzman, led to a steep decline in the group, which numbered up to 10,000 at its peak and murdered tens of thousands in ...

AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history.(The Week ...)(heterosexual outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history. A key feature of its politicization was the claim that without massive funding for prevention programs, the disease would escape into the general population from its bases among homosexual men and needle-using drug addicts ....

Sometimes, abortions go wrong, and the baby survives.(The Week ...)(Jodie Percival)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... Sometimes, abortions go wrong, and the baby survives. (What a sickening sentence.) That is what happened in England recently. Jodie Percival became pregnant with her third child, and, along with her fiance, decided to have an abortion. Her first child had died of kidney disease, and her ...