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While I condemn Bhutto's assassination, I have not forgotten what it was like to live in a country run by her. Both her terms as PM were marred by corruption scandals. She actively supported the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She twice squandered the opportunity to make any tangible difference...
But the fate of the polar bear goes beyond a single oil and gas project. If the species is declared threatened, FWS will have responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act to protect the bears from their main danger - in this case, climate change. That means the government could be challenged...
Charles Darwin started wrestling with questions like this when he published his 1871 book The Descent of Man. Darwin granted that his readers might doubt that humans evolved from an ancestral ape. "Man differs so greatly in his mental power from all other animals, there must be some error in...
Man is a rational animal, Aristotle declared, but experiments have demonstrated that reason is not a gift of our species alone. Last December, researchers reported that monkeys were almost as good as college students at arithmetic (at least when the arithmetic involved adding dots on a screen). And our rationality...
Given that choice, Michigan primary voters, who picked McCain over Bush in 2000, abandoned their hero in droves. The result was a decisive victory for Romney, who took 39% of the vote to McCain's 30%. (Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won 16%.) "Tonight," Romney declared in Southfield on election...