Them
This is creepy (and yet kinda cool at the same time): “A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain,” the AP
Multiculturalism Gone Berserk?
Representatives of the Pacific outpost of Easter Island are
To(EU)rism
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a travel advisory for Jews thinking about travelling to France or Belgium: FRANCE — In the last 18 months there have been over 400 hate crimes against Jewish targets in France including, in recent days, arson attacks against synagogues, Jewish institutions, beatings of Jewish school children and pedestrians and other acts of threats and intimidation in Paris, Marseilles, Lyon and other communities. As a
Science Fictions?
For those of you looking to take a break from Mideast news, check out Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey’s “Green with Ideology” — a critically-minded look at (and rebuttal of) the “scientific community’s” attack on Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist. A teaser: The bitter anti-Lomborg campaign reveals the hidden crisis of what we might call ideological environmentalism. Ideological environmentalism goes far beyond sensible efforts to reduce pollution or protect wilderness.
The Battle of Evermore
Insight on the News interviews Daniel Pipes. A sample: Insight: Do you think there is a relationship between Middle Eastern scholarship as it has been conducted in the universities in the United States and Europe and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11? DP: Yes, indirectly. Scholars have been apologizing for militant Islam and dismissing its terrorist activities. They proclaimed militant Islam a source of democratization and civil society. Before 9/11,