“One week after a U.S. Geological Survey study warned that caribou ‘may be particularly sensitive’ to oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the agency has completed a quick follow-up report suggesting that the most likely drilling scenarios under consideration should have no impact on caribou,” The Washington Post [reluctantly? nah!]

“Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announced Monday that Baghdad had decided to halt its oil exports immediately for one month in protest at Israel’s incursion of Palestinian areas on the West Bank,” Reuters reports. “Saddam said in a speech broadcast over Iraqi media: ‘The Iraqi leadership declared the complete stoppage of oil exports starting from this afternoon April 8 for a period of 30 days when we will further decide policy

Bjorn Staerk, on how Norwegian popular opinion favors the Palestinian position in the latest Mideast conflagration: All the major parties and news media appear to agree that Israel is the driving force behind the violence, and holds the power to stop it. (In a recent poll, 44% sympathized most with the Palestinians, 9% with Israel, and 38% with neither. The 9% apparently consisted of elderly Christians.) Terrorism may or may

I’m shocked, Sarge! Shocked, I say! protein wisdom is what one man aspires to. No man can hope to attain protein wisdom alone… protein wisdom. It’s a way of being. [Oh. And Native Deen (“we put the Hizzya in Hizzbollah!”) rawwwwks…!]

Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg has a thoughtful and detailed post on the often unacknowledged (among the professional pundocracy, at least) breadth of the current war on terror. Reynolds already linked to this, but if you blew it off to follow one of the Prof’s thousand other links (none of which, you’ll note, introduced you to Muslim Supergroup Native Deen— “Give a hollah’ out to Allah! Native Deen’s in the Mizz-osque!”&trade, take

Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg has a thoughtful and detailed post on the often unacknowledged (among the professional pundocracy, at least) breadth of the current war on terror. Reynolds already linked to this, but if you blew it off to follow one of the Prof’s thousand other links (none of which, you’ll note, introduced you to Muslim Supergroup Native Deen— “Give a hollah’ out to Allah! Native Deen’s in the Mizz-osque!”&trade, take

Megan McArdle has a wonderful post on Price Elasticity of Demand and its application in understanding the economic dishonesty behind impotent CAFE regulations. Hell, she’s even posted charts and graphs.

Megan McArdle has a wonderful post on Price Elasticity of Demand and its application in understanding the economic dishonesty behind impotent CAFE regulations. Hell, she’s even posted charts and graphs.

The famed 9/11