Unqualified Offerings

(Posted by Thoreau)
OK, I’ve talked about things like this in other forums, and now I’d like to ask Jim’s fine audience these 2 questions:
1)  What do you think it will take to end the drug war?  What will have to happen?  What sort of argument will carry the day?  What will have to happen to [...]

(Posted by Thoreau)
I’m going to make a prediction: I’m going to predict that a lot of what we’re being told about the terrorist plot against air travel will turn out to be a big mistake by the authorities.
So far they have 24 people in custody in England and suspect that there are others. [...]

The Editors get serious.

(Posted by Mona)
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye

to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I [...]

(Posted by Jennifer) 
The bans against bringing liquids and gels onto airplanes might be permanent, not a short-term reaction to the British terror plot. In other news concerning the War on Freedom, a New York appeals court ruled today that there’s nothing wrong with letting the cops conduct random bag searches of New York subway riders: 
A federal appeals [...]

(Posted by Mona)
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President Bush asserted yesterday that the foiled plot to blow up transcontinental flights between the U.K. and the U.S. should basically serve as a wake-up call to Americans:

“This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to … destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our [...]

(Posted by Mona)
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This is disturbing on several levels. Live Science reports that the U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution:
A comparison of peoples’ views in 34 countries finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. Only Turkey ranked [...]