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Steven Taylor tells us what happens when The Stupids Go to War. One passage from the Time article stands out:
That agent, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told [Afghan tribal leader Haji Bashar Noorzai] that a grand jury had issued a sealed indictment against Noorzai 3 1/2 months earlier and that he was [...]

By Thoreau
Many scientists have observed chimpanzees using tools. The big question, however, has been whether they figured it out by themselves, or whether their ancestors learned it by watching humans use tools , and then passed it on to their kids. Well, scientists have found artifacts of chimpanzee tools from several thousand years [...]

By Thoreau
For those of you who are science enthusiasts, the Public Library of Science is a great resource with NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED. Today, I bring to your attention an article from PLoS Biology concerning terminology in articles on antibiotic resistance.
The gist of the article is that they surveyed a bunch of papers on antibiotic [...]

 By Mona
[Instapundit link address updated as same changes, yet again, at Instapundit's site.]
One of the saddest, despair-inducing phenomena among many in the current American political crisis has been the wholesale moral corruption of people who once were principled and reasonable libertarians or liberals. Among the more disturbing public descents into true depravity has been Glenn “Instapundit” [...]

In today’s Washington Post, Anne Applebaum writes about Tunisia.  Tunisia is, relative to the rest of the Arab world, a country with a fairly pro-Western population.  But that is changing, with radicalism becoming more popular.  Still, she argues that if one were to start a Democratic Domino Effect in the Arab world, Tunisia would have [...]