WHAT LIBERALS MEAN by ‘civility.’

More here and here.

MYTH AND MEMORY: the battle over Reagan's legacy. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson contributes to the revisionism.

JEFF JACOBY: No room at the table. Jacoby is writing specifically on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood, but two comments bear thinking about more generally.

Free and democratic societies take chances.... They give citizens the power to elect their rulers ... and the possibility that voters will choose officials who are corrupt or incompetent.

The 2008 Presidential election, anyone?

Democracy is flexible, but even in the best of circumstances it is incompatible with religious totalitarianism.

The same can be said for secular totalitarianism.

GRAVITY ASSIST: Asteroid makes sharpest turn yet seen in solar system. All of our deep-space probes (Pioneer, Mariner, Voyager) have used gravity-assist and it’s long been a staple of good science fiction, but this report is the first one I’ve seen of nature using it. Neat.

SAVE THE BULB; repeal the ban. And watch the video clip.

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT, here’s an “issue even better than global warming climate change, because it would require shutting down nearly all of industrial civilization entirely, and returning us to the 17th century.”

MORAL HAZARD: when government creates the problems they purport to solve.

IF ONLY THE CAR WAS A PRIUS

COMMERCIAL SPACE: Bill Whittle’s “Free Frontier.”



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