The unfeeling Sinn Fein statement on Sunday about the murders at the Massereene Barracks and the cold hard words from Gerry Adams on Monday's Today Programme will have distressed those who believed he had mellowed into a kindly statesman....

Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? Good question: I’ve seen videos of the incineration of T.M.X. Elmo (short for Tickle Me Extreme); they made me feel vaguely uncomfortable. Part of me wanted to laugh — Elmo giggled absurdly through the whole ordeal — but I also felt sick ...

Tim Sandefur quotes President Obama as follows: “[W]e’ve got a couple hundred of hard-core militants that, unfortunately, because of…some problems that we had previously in gathering evidence, we may not be able to try in ordinary courts but we don’t want to release…. I have to mak...

Like Tim Sandefur, I remain guarded about the real consequences of Obama’s fine-sounding executive order to close the Guantanamo detention camp. I find it galling that, in purportedly ending this abuse, Obama reserves the right to decide whether the Guantanamo prisoners get a proper status det...

Listen people, we know that the entire world is happy that we have a new President and he has given some hope for the future..but do we really need a musical about the man? I mean, our new Prez is a tall-cool-handsome-black man and now British playwrite Teddy Haye’s is going to dork him all up...

I wasn’t entirely convinced Bush Derangement Syndrome existed until I made my farewell post at Dispatches From the Culture War and am getting nailed in the comments to it. And, I mean this as no insult to Ed; he has a great blog and I’m grateful that he invited me to guest blog. Let me f...

This month’s Cato Unbound is about how to craft sound public messages about terrorism. Obviously terrorists want us to panic, and obviously we should resist this impulse, both because it’s what the terrorists want and because panic is for chumps. But willpower alone may not be enough, an...

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"That's about a million books on those shelves," Chuck Roberts says proudly....

Filed under: Fun & activities, Holidays, Toys & games Hard to believe, folks, and yet it is true. Not only do we have a truly historical election and to-be presidency on our hands, but we also have a toy that has at last broken the final frontier of consumerism--outselling Elmo! For those of...