A few days ago I started a discussion here about the ethics of manipulating certain livestock traits through bio-engineering (to factor out the animal’s awareness or its pain threshold, for instance). That discussion was picked up and expanded upon by the urbane and erudite Doc Weevil. Now this, from researchers at the University of Bonn: “The killing fields: Thoughts on man’s inhumanity to plants”: Scientists at the University of Bonn

Philip Murphy of The Invisible Hand sends me this notice of the death of Pym Fortuyn: Backlash! Pym Fortuyn, the charismatic neo-conservative Dutch politician is assassinated. Anyone care to link this to the Euro-hysteria regarding anything and anyone conservative? Fortuyn was no fascist. He made the conversion from Left to Right, a conversion that speaks volumes about a person’s maturity and wisdom. He was therefore far more of a threat

Joel Mowbray, writing in The National Review, says the U.N. will likely ignore the Israeli-compiled “Arafat Files”: Though U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan was champing at the bit to examine possible war crimes in Jenin where Israeli soldiers were fighting armed combatants, he expressed no interest whatsoever in investigating the role of Arafat or other Palestinian leaders in the Passover Massacre, which claimed far more innocent civilian lives. For the

“High-level Christian clerics covered up the real goings-on in the Church of the Nativity standoff, a church official involved in behind-the-scenes negotiations said Friday.” ‘It is not true that all the clergymen are staying in the church of their own free will and that everyone inside is getting along,’ a Jerusalem-based cleric told The Jerusalem Post. ‘But propaganda is all that is heard, in part because of many cover-ups by

Here’s the Jerusalem Post’s story on the much-anticipated “Arafat File,” which could sound the death knell for the Arafat regime (should the EU take the Israeli findings seriously): The Palestinian Authority has used tens of millions of dollars it received from donors such as the European Union to finance terrorism, while Saudi Arabia has given a total of $550,000 in the last year to more than 100 families of Palestinian

As Nick Schulz points out in his Tech Central Station piece, “Scientific Goring,” for former Veep and environmental ideologue Al Gore, oftentimes “a visionary one minute is anti-American the next.” It seems Mr. Gore’s latest defamation campaign — against Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the new head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) — has hit a serious snag, though, owing in large part to Gore’s own praise

As Nick Schulz points out in his Tech Central Station piece, “Scientific Goring,” for former Veep and environmental ideologue Al Gore, oftentimes “a visionary one minute is anti-American the next.” It seems Mr. Gore’s latest defamation campaign — against Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the new head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) — has hit a serious snag, though, owing in large part to Gore’s own praise

Via LGF: Screenwriter and Israeli-American peace activist Daniel Gordon’s press tour of Jenin, detailed in this Jewish Journal story. For those of you who still doubt the pervasive anti-Israeli bias on the part of journalists for CNN and the L.A. Times, please read this. And then dash off those outraged emails.

Via LGF: Screenwriter and Israeli-American peace activist Daniel Gordon’s press tour of Jenin, detailed in this Jewish Journal story. For those of you who still doubt the pervasive anti-Israeli bias on the part of journalists for CNN and the L.A. Times, please read this. And then dash off those outraged emails.