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

Read this. And this. And this. Follow the links they provide you with. Then steel yourselves. I know I have.

Heh heh! The same thing happened to me about nine years ago. Only I got lucky. ‘Cause I’m a freakin’ stud, is why.By the way, if you’re reading this, honey, I’m only kidding. I didn’t get laid. Her name was Shelly, and she only gave me a hummer…

“Los Angeles — A man who put a curse on Livermore’s sewer system says he’ll remove it if the city apologizes,” L.A.’s NBC News 4 reports. “Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall claims to have placed a curse on the city in the early 1970s because officials allegedly mistreated a totem pole he gave Livermore as a gift.” When crews installed the 20-foot totem pole, they cut several feet off the bottom

“A Mississauga [Ontario] soccer coach has been charged with assaulting a 12-year-old girl playing for the opposing team in a weekend soccer match.” “Halton Police arrested 39-year-old Frank Pesce, of Spangler Dr., earlier this week after the bizarre incident, which occurred on a Milton soccer field during a game between two Mississauga under-12 squads Saturday afternoon. Pesce is the coach of the North Mississauga Soccer Club Panthers.” “Police and parents

Is suburban “sprawl” the vast aesthetic plague environmentalists and (Humbert Humbert) claim it to be? Is America’s diminishing wilderness being overrun by tacky stripmalls and single story ranch homes with American flags displayed on their porch fronts and plastic flamingos dotting their little manicured lawns? Well, not according to the latest federal data on land development — or at least, not as it’s being analyzed and reported on by Ronald

“A woman whose debit card was stolen found herself in profit when she checked her bank balance — because the thief had used it to bet on the horses and his winnings were paid directly into her account.” “Jacqueline Boanson was described in court yesterday as ‘the happiest victim of theft ever’. Magistrates at Cheltenham were told that after her card was stolen she looked at her bank statement, and