Author: lapin

On the heels of General Myers’ acknowledgement that the US Army is stretched thin by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, comes news that Army recruiting has missed its goals for new recruits for the third month in a row.. In...

How does one detect liberal bias?  Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has the answer to that question: Without the knowledge of his board, the chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, contracted...

[editor’s note, by lapin]Susanhbu wrote about this legislation when it was still a proposal in an earlier diary, here. In a move to chill access to abortion, the US House this week passed the Child Interstate Abortion...

in 2000!  I stumbled across a op/ed piece written by the Cato Institute’s Director of Natural Resources, Jerry Taylor.  The column, titled Bush Energy Babble, was published on the New Republic’s website...

I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. In the 70’s (and probably now too), Charleston was a rich military target. We schoolchildren were often directed to watch films about the proper response to a nuclear missile...