Today’s must-read from Michael Barone: Two generations ago, Americans, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths, changed minds in Germany and Japan. The Pew Global Project Attitude’s metrics give us reason to believe that today’s Americans, at far lower cost, are changing minds in the Muslim world.

Christopher Hitchens on Cindy Sheehan: “What do these people imagine that they are demanding? Would they like a referendum to be held, among the relatives of the fallen in Iraq, to determine the future conduct of the war? I think I can promise them that they would heavily lose such a vote. But what if… Continue reading

In the long run, though, intelligent design will probably prove a political boon to liberals, and a poisoned chalice for conservatives. Like the evolution wars in the early part of the last century, the design debate offers liberals the opportunity to portray every scientific battle–today, stem-cell research, “therapeutic” cloning, and end-of-life issues; tomorrow, perhaps, large-scale… Continue reading

Michael Shermer seems to be the only one to get it right on Bush’s recent remarks about the controversy surrounding intelligent design: On Monday, August 1, Bush gave an interview at the White House to a group of Texas newspaper reporters in which he said that when he was governor of Texas “I felt like… Continue reading

Wise advice from Lebanon: “To stop a man who wants to oppress you is not a case of you oppressing him.” Anyone on the extreme Right or extreme Left listening? (via Instapundit.com)