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Signals heard: French newspaper Le Monde says French military ships have detected signals from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths. The report says a research mini-submarine, the Nautile, dived Monday to search for the boxes based on a “very weak signal” from the flight recorders picked up by the French ships. [...]

The Heritage Foundation has an excellent report on the damage this will cause to our economy both in the short and long term. Fundamentally, we need to ask ourselves, if all this is so wonderful, why is China saying No? The economic impact of the new draft varies from that of the original draft in [...]

A beautiful Spring!

John O’Sullivan: In brief, it’s one of the most important movements of our time. It radically undermines both the realist argument that Muslims are uninterested in democracy and the Jihadist claim to represent the mass of Muslims. And if it continues—whether it is crushed or triumphs in the immediate future—it will add immeasurably to the [...]

One path to kill homeschooling: I wish all my posts were as fun to write as the Case Against Homeschooling, but today, 46 states and the District of Columbia will announce a plan to create a common education standard for the nation. And the ramifications for homeschoolers (or any free-thinking, freedom loving American) are anything [...]

Missiles aimed at Hawaii and on their way to Myanmar? Comforted by the US military’s missile defense systems, Hawaii residents doubt a North Korean missile would light up the clear island sky like fireworks on the Fourth of July. But that doesn’t mean the islands’ laid-back beachgoers aren’t worried that a long-range missile could be [...]

Professor Brainbridge: Memo to Senator Harkin: We had a collective response [to slavery]. It was called the Army of the Potomac. Not to mention the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and decades of affirmative action.

For W, but not O! Will Walpin make a Time magazine cover? In 2002 TIME Magazine honored these Whistleblowers as their Persons of the Year — Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins. “They took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI—and in [...]

More Hope and Change! This time in the form of Hack Science: Pielke doesn’t necessarily refute global-warming concerns, but he notes that the administration is hardly taking a scientific approach to a scientific issue. Instead of focusing on peer-reviewed research, which has become increasingly inconclusive, the White House and Holdren have begun seizing on claims [...]

More Hope and Change: From the Office of Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi To the President of the USA, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama: Dear Mr. President, In the name of the Iranian people, we want you to know that when you recently made the statement “Achmadinejad or Mousavi? Two of a kind,” we consider this as [...]