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Columns - Commentary
 Michael
Reagan: Democrats
in Denial - Last November we had an election. The Republicans
won the White House again, and strengthened their control of
both houses of Congress. In other words, they won.
You'd think that the losers
would accept their defeat, as losers have done throughout the
long history of this republic. The people have spoken, loud and
clear. They want the GOP running things in Washington but the
Democrats aren't listening. Instead of being gracious in defeat,
they are sulking like a bunch of spoiled brats whose parents
won't let them stay up late to watch TV. Their attitude is that
if they can't be in charge in Washington and shove their socialist
programs down our throats they are going to do everything by
hook or by crook to stop the Republicans from doing what the
voters sent them to the nation's capital to do be in charge.
- More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
 Will
Durst: Cyclop's
Pink Eye - President George Bush's nomination for U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations is John Bolton, a well known critic of
that very organization. And to say he's a critic of the U.N.
might be an understatement on the order of saying the Swift Boat
Veterans were not John Kerry's biggest fans. Bolton has gone
so far as to declare that as far he's concerned the U.N. doesn't
exist. Call me wacky, but shouldn't the guy who's going to represent
us at least accept the institution's existence? And does this
skepticism extend to the structure itself? If so, how's the man
going to get to work? Is he destined to wander aimlessly around
the East Side of Manhattan querying strangers as to the location
of his own personal Brigadoon? - More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
 Steve
Brewer: I
don't want to hear you now - Can you hear me now?
No? Good.
According to a recent poll,
you probably don't want to hear me when I'm talking on my cell
phone. And I certainly don't want to hear you. - More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
 Preston
MacDougall: Chemical
Eye on Waves of Light - In spite of his role as one of the
founders of quantum theory, Albert Einstein didn't much like
it - too "spooky". He was certain that something was
missing, though he never found it.
April 18th marks the fiftieth
anniversary of his death, and an Austrian physicist has planned
a day-long, once around the world, wave of light to salute the
man who quantized it. To honor his life, a committee of physicists
has compiled year-long plans for 2005, the World Year of Physics
and the centennial of his annus mirabilis, or miracle year. -
More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
 James Derk: Tech
tips on Service Pack 2, Google, more - Tidbits from the computing
world and the repair bench fill the space this week. Let's get
right to it.
Beginning April 12, Microsoft
turned on Windows XP Service Pack 2 as a "required, critical
update," forcing the 200 MB download on your machine even
if you installed the previously issued patch to block it. (This
assumes you have Automatic Update installed, as many of us do.)
 Deroy
Murdock: Market
personal accounts as Social Security Choice - President Bush's
proposed personal retirement accounts are trapped in a mind-numbing
symposium on Social Security's long-term solvency, wage- versus
inflation-based indexing of benefits, FICA-tax caps and other
arcana. Before Americans lapse into a collective trance, the
president should reinvigorate this debate by promoting his idea
as Social Security Choice. - More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
 Jay
Ambrose: A
question of decency - Chicago's DePaul University, which
has taken a couple of hits for its grotesque squashing of a professor's
free-speech rights, is hitting back, adding defamatory insult
to career-ending injury - and a question comes to mind.
It's a question that was asked
by the counsel for the Army in 1954 when Sen. Joseph McCarthy
was seeking out communists in the government. He threw his charges
around with little or no evidence, others in Congress did the
same and sometimes reputations were recklessly ruined. - More...
Thursday - April 14, 2005
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