Month: December 2005

. White House Defends Human Rights Record WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) Dec. 3 — The White House said that the United States is the world leader on human rights, despite outrage in Europe over reports of secret CIA prisons where...

Being the last three days before election day, we’ve introduced the very first ‘Live Q &A Window’ for those with questions about Steve Young, the campaign, how they can help or any other campaign matter....

There’s a moment driving the morning commute over the San Francisco Bay Bridge that exemplifies who we are and where we are at as a civilization. Driving through the tunnel on Yerba Buena Island in five lanes of traffic...

by Patrick Lang (bio below, with a must-read update) Someone wrote to me today to inform of the ongoing debate in Washington’s “circles of exalted brooding” with regard to the “discovery” on the...

I fear that one subtle element was lost in the discussion, and it’s one of the elements that argues most strongly for the retention of peer review, at least in academic environments.  I think that it is helpful to...