Friday dose of Krauthammer: We had no idea how lucky we were with Sputnik. The subsequent panic turned out to be an enormous boon. The fear of falling behind the Communists induced the federal government to pour a river of money into science and math education. The result was a vast cohort of scientists who… Continue reading

Even the New York Times is waking up to the bad faith behind the new ‘Expelled’ movie. I think Ben Stein is going to eventually regret his involvement in it. As usual, intelligent design proponents talk about the conspiracy of silence against new ‘thinking’ about evolution.

Krauthammer on France: Sarkozy is no American lapdog. Like every Fifth Republic president, he begins with the notion of French exceptionalism. But whereas traditional Gaullism tended to define French grandeur as establishing a counterweight to American power, Sarkozy is not adverse to seeing French assertiveness exercised in conjunction with the United States. As Kouchner put… Continue reading

The luck of our soldiers, God bless ’em.

The dudes at Triablogue are just having way too much fun. One of the reasons it’s hard not to like their blog, even when I disagree with them….