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Waltzing on the Titanic

Monday, November 17 2008

By Larrey Anderson November 15, 2008 America's young people helped elect Barack Obama. Way to go kids! This article is for you. Let's take a look at your future. We won't need a time machine. We will just need to visit Europe and talk to the youth of France, Italy, and Greece. Don't worry. They won't mind. They have plenty of time to talk. They don't have jobs. Young people in Western Europe tend to sit around, smoke Marlboro cigarettes,…

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Vince Flynn - Extreme Measures

Monday, November 17 2008

Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan Mike Nash glanced anxiously at his watch and then eyed the twin flat-screen monitors. Both prisoners were sleeping soundly. If all went according to plan, their slumber wouldn't last much longer. The prisoners had been picked up seven days earlier on a routine patrol. At the time, the young GI's had no idea whom they had stumbled upon. That revelation came later, and by accident. The brass at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan quickly separated…

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I come to hail chief, not bury him

Friday, November 14 2008

Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor | November 13, 2008 I WRITE in praise of George W. Bush. I recognise this may be an eccentric position to hold and an eccentric moment to express it. But I am inspired by the example of the great Catholic polemicist, B. A.Santamaria. In 1963, South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated in a military coup backed by the Americans, though they didn't back his murder. To cover the assassination, the slander was put out…

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Aliens Cause Global Warming

Sunday, November 09 2008

Cast your minds back to 1960. John F. Kennedy is president, commercial jet airplanes are just appearing, the biggest university mainframes have 12K of memory. And in Green Bank, West Virginia at the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a young astrophysicist named Frank Drake runs a two-week project called Ozma, to search for extraterrestrial signals. A signal is received, to great excitement. It turns out to be false, but the excitement remains. In 1960, Drake organizes the first SETI conference,…

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Environmentalism As The New Religion by Michael Critchton

Sunday, November 09 2008

I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. We must daily decide whether the threats we face are…

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Being a Scot

Friday, November 07 2008

Not just the autobiography of actor and movie star, Sean Connery, this well produced book also contains a wonderfully descriptive and well illustrated history of Scotland. Sean Connery has been involved with the Scottish International Education Trust for many years and he dedicates this book to the trust. His love of all things Scottish and the great pride he places on being a Scot make this book extra special

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