As the money crisis seems to grow worse in Europe, we have begun to wonder if there are parallels to the 1907 financial panic in the United States that gave rise to the Federal Reserve. The dominant social theme way back then (assuming an active po...
I will not address whether babies have a sense of right versus wrong, only the way this matter was reportedly tested by the researchers who investigated it. Paul Bloom and his wife, Karen Wynn, of the Infant Cognitive Center at Yale University, conducted studies with babies and reached the conclusion that, indeed, babies have a moral sense. One piece of evidence supporting their conclusion was that babies tended to show a preference for people who were nice to other people and didn't much like
“Memorial Day will forever mean something different to me“ From Skip Rohde; Memorial Day in Baghdad is not like it is in the States. Okay, so we got a full day off. Our little group was sitting around dinner in the DFAC last night discussing what our options were. Go to the beach? Nah [...]
We are not much impressed by Israeli justice when it comes Mordechai Vanunu who has paid with a good deal of his life for apparently exposing Israel's nuclear arsenal. Presumably his persecution is supposed to be a warning to others not to tell Wes...
The talk in the United States, especially, and Britain, too, is one of recovery. Even in Europe, we noted recently, there are digital maps available that show much of the Eurozone is coming out of "recession" and various indicators are turnin...
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau Published: 5/24/2010 9:25 PM Last Modified: 5/24/2010 9:25 PM OKLAHOMA CITY — The Legislature sent Gov. Brad Henry an insurance claims bill Monday that critics charge is a tax increase.
Sen. Randy Brogdon was outraged Monday afternoon when his colleagues in the Senate voted on a measure to create a health carrier fee – a move he says was in direct violation of the Oklahoma Cons...
Today we released the Oath to Oklahoma, which is a list of pledges that Nathan Dahm will work for as he serves the people of Oklahoma's 1st District as their Representative in Washington D.C. For a full list of the pledges, as well as a pdf that can be...
From the “Ain’t this a bitch” file I don’t honestly know who involved in this is the worse douchebag, the New York Times for publishing this, or the leftist hack in the administration who leaked it. WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity [...]
Everyone who is awake discriminates – it is what people do with their minds, it's the way they know the world, more or less well. The kind of discrimination that's objectionable is when people use irrelevant attributes of others to classi...