A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house. Oh, and don’t fail to read further down the article where reporters recount how “in 2007, a 19-year-old gang-r...

Lawyers are trained not only in logical analysis but also in the use of rhetoric. Reasoning has its persuasive value but, as every trial lawyer knows, so does appeal to mere emotion. See if you can tell which technique is primarily in play here: Suppose al Qaeda branched out from crashing airliners ...

Old Joke: As Arthur Smythe’s friends and family gathered to pay their respects to the world-famous and now deceased critic, one precocious disciple stood by the casket and said, “The mortician has certainly done an admirable job. But still it remains, as always, to be asked … [see ...

I can’t think of another time it would occur to me to link Ronald Bailey, Nat Hentoff and Christopher Hitchens, but as Michael C. Moynahan notes today at Reason’s “Hit & Run,” they (and now Moynahan) are practically the only working journalists to have reported on U.N. R...

I love stories like this. According to the AFP, the art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Javad Shamaghdari has demanded an apology from a visiting Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences delegation, adding: “We will believe (US President Barack) Obama’s policy of change when...

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With simultaneous apologies and kudos to reason’s Michael C. Moynihan, from whom I am simply stealing this Hit & Run post in its brilliant entirety: Via Drudge, Portfolio flags the greatest correction ever. It seems that the diligent reporters at Huffington Post fell for a doctored video ...

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[N.B. -- In our recent discussions of natural rights and such, regular reader and commenter, A. Murali mentioned he was working on a paper for a class he was taking which might contribute to the topic. I emailed him stating I'd be happy to take a look at it and, if it fell within the fairly broad ra...

As it happens, I don’t know either Peter Bayer, principle of Pembroke Pines Charter High School in Broward County, Florida or Pamela Brown, assistant director for the Broward County School District. But just in case you do know either or both of them and not only know them but just in case you...