The persistence of the terrorist danger is a result of our government’s failure to act on the evidence it already has. We know that terrorists are the agents of certain militant Islamic organizations — such as al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas — which use terrorism as a tactic to destroy the non-Islamic West. And we know that these groups function only through the assistance of certain nations, such as Iran,

Writing in the Financial Times, Charles Grant observes: Nato should develop a new military role, to provide a European strike force that could fight alongside US troops in a high-intensity conflict such as that in Afghanistan. The point would be to encourage US commanders to take up European offers of assistance: they would probably be more willing to do so if such forces — including, for example, bombers and elite

Please. Do compare: Here’s the staid and objective Washington Post introducing the legal battle over UNC-Chapel Hill’s decision to make Michael Sells’ book, Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, required summer reading for incoming University of North Carolina freshmen: No one complained two years ago when the University of North Carolina required its incoming freshmen to read a book about the lingering effects of the Civil War, nor last year

The President should seek a Congressional Declaration of War against Iraq before ordering any strikes. At least, that’s the argument being made by Cato’s Doug Bandow (writing in The National Review) and George Will, writing in The New York Post: Today the justifiable, but undeniably radical, policy of pre-emptive war compels Congress to play a dramatically different role [than it did in WWII]. What is under way is without precedent

Writing in Reason, Michael McMenamin blasts prominent tort reform opponent and Rhode Island law professor Carl Bogus’s latest book, Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law: Bogus believes the current tort system is just fine. Horror stories from tort reformers about excessive jury verdicts are no more than corporate whining, he argues. What

1. See a baseball game. 2. Go hiking with the wife 3. Have some Maryland steamed crabs and pitchered beer with college friends. 4. Visit the Aquarium of the Americas in Louisiana and take the behind-the-scenes tour (the one that allows you to stand on the steel feeding platform over the shark tank!) 5. Ride a roller coaster. 6. Pet a goat.

“A thriving Bronze Age drug trade supplied narcotics to ancient cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean as balm for the pain of childbirth and disease, proving a sophisticated knowledge of medicines dating back thousands of years, researchers say.” From MSNBC: “Ancient ceramic pots, most of them nearly identical in shape and about five inches long, have been found in tombs and settlements throughout the Middle East, dating as far back as