“A student forced out of OU in September after the president of the Pakistan Student Association accused him of a hate crime is back on campus,” a story in the Oklahoma Daily Online reports. Shipman

“The three British al-Qaeda suspects being held at Camp X-Ray in Cuba have ‘no complaints’ about their treatment, according to British officials who have seen them,” the BBC reports. “The three are in ‘good physical health’ and are being treated well, they reported.” The long-awaited assessment of conditions at the base comes amid fierce criticism of the US’s treatment of the prisoners, who are held in small cells open to

“U.S. diplomats were preparing for a significant diplomatic spat with Beijing yesterday after the discovery of more than 25 listening devices on the new American-built aircraft of the Chinese President,” The Times of London reports. “The bugs were found throughout Jiang Zemin

Just in time for MLK’s Birthday, new Blogger Jeremy Freedman looks at race in America — all these years after Dr. King’s famous “dream” of a coming American meritocracy. He concludes with this sentiment: We can all get together and do better on race. I don’t think we have to scrap every last vestige of affirmative action, but that would be preferable to the current rant and rave until you

Not much in the way of quantity in store for y’all today… instead, we’ll be tweaking the site design (always striving to make it better), and watching football playoff games (always on the lookout for excuses to drink beer). More this evening — the protein wisdom crew

A follow-up to our entry on Manuela Ruda and her husband, the London vampire duo who slaughtered a German friend, drank his blood, then (for dessert?) fornicated in some satin-lined coffins they keep lying around… From The Telegraph: “A woman who says she and her husband killed a German friend with 66 knife wounds on orders from the devil has claimed that she became a satanist in Britain.” […] Manuela

Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas writes that volcanoes should better respect the people and animals who live around them…

“Airline security personnel at Phoenix’s international airport questioned a retired general and war hero about the Medal of Honor he was carrying before he boarded a flight to Washington, D.C.,” The Washington Times reports. “‘They just didn’t know what it was but they acted like I shouldn’t be carrying it on,’ retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph J. Foss of Scottsdale, Ariz., said yesterday in a telephone interview.” ‘I kept explaining

Jacob Sullum, writing in Reason, examines the cloning controversy through a libertarian-tinted lens: [President Bush’s Council on Bioethics chairman, University of Chicago bioethicist Leon]Kass’ most compelling argument against reproductive cloning is that it would frequently produce babies with serious birth defects. Most scientists agree that, given the current state of technology, trying to produce a cloned baby now would be reckless. But this objection will lose its force once the

“…New York City developer Forest City Ratner abandoned the design of a September 11 memorial it commissioned after the project brought outcries from firefighters and the public,” Beth Henary reports for The Weekly Standard. “Forest City Ratner, which manages fire department headquarters where a memorial will eventually stand, expressed a desire for the memorial to be a respected object in the community, a reality that clearly wasn’t coming to pass