“Medical researchers are increasingly questioning one of the most widely held beliefs in preventive medicine: that screening healthy people for cancer and catching it early saves lives,” The New York Times reports: Some, like Pap tests for cervical cancer and tests for colon cancer, show clear benefits. But evidence for others, like mammography and a blood test for early signs of prostate cancer, is less clear, researchers say, and some

Check out Jeff Jacoby’s Boston Globe essay, “Smears, slanders from the left.” “For eight years now,” Jacoby says, he’s “been rounding up examples of liberal hate speech – the gross and vicious slanders of conservatives uttered all too often by mainstream liberals.” Jacoby rolls off a list of examples — the typical equating of conservative thought to Nazi-ism or to KKK-ish sentiments, for instance — but most compelling is the

Check out Jeff Jacoby’s Boston Globe essay, “Smears, slanders from the left.” “For eight years now,” Jacoby says, he’s “been rounding up examples of liberal hate speech – the gross and vicious slanders of conservatives uttered all too often by mainstream liberals.” Jacoby rolls off a list of examples — the typical equating of conservative thought to Nazi-ism or to KKK-ish sentiments, for instance — but most compelling is the

Paul Martin has a nice piece on the Euro in today’s The Washington Times — a fairly comprehensive examination of the currency — and of concerns surrounding the changeover — as E-Day looms abroad… To me, the most interesting bit about the Euro is that the majority of EU citizens don’t want it — but that doesn’t much matter to EU bureaucrats, who always — always — know best…

From The New York Times: “With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China”: AIDS in China is spreading at a breakneck pace

From The New York Times: “With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China”: AIDS in China is spreading at a breakneck pace

Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas responds intelligently and forcefully to my argument defending George Will

I lost interest a couple paragraphs into Maureen Dowd’s column today, but I managed to pull something out of it to ridicule: After 9/11, the great chatterers predicted that adults would want to escape with light romantic movies. But instead, rentals of blow-’em-up and terrorism movies spiked. Oblivious to her own position among the chattering class (or maybe “great” is a value judgment?), Dowd fails to notice a similar pattern

The New York Times is reporting that the cave-by-cave hunt for Usama Bin Laden is losing steam: The American- backed effort to comb the caves of Tora Bora for signs of Osama bin Laden, his fighters and intelligence on terrorist attacks that might be in the works has made little progress and seems to be fading as a top priority, American and Afghan officials said today. More than 50 American

The New York Times is reporting that the cave-by-cave hunt for Usama Bin Laden is losing steam: The American- backed effort to comb the caves of Tora Bora for signs of Osama bin Laden, his fighters and intelligence on terrorist attacks that might be in the works has made little progress and seems to be fading as a top priority, American and Afghan officials said today. More than 50 American