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The USS Constellation has been decommissioned.

The Hoover Institution's Henry Miller has an op-ed piece in today's New York Times on DDT. Miller argues that the limited use of DDT to kill mosquitos and prevent the spread of malaria, West Nile virus and other diseases is good public policy. I agree. DDT is cheap and safe for both humans and the […]

It's very possible that the nail was put in Gov. Gray Davis' coffin Wednesday with Arnold Schwarzenegger's surprise announcement that he would be running for governor. For the past few days, word had been that Schwarzenegger (oh, that will be the bane of headline writers -- try to fit that in a 1 column headline) […]

Don Luskin makes some calls on Krugman's sourcing and does taxes better than I. At most, Bush's tax cuts would reduce a 28% tax on $2000 to a 15% tax -- for a savings of $260, only about a third of the $725 savings in the example. My calculation was apparently more generous to Krugman […]

Josh Marshall, sometimes referred to as Paul Krugman's political brain, has an article in The Hill magazine defending Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee against the charges of an anti-Catholic crusade. Marshall counterattacks on two points: First, is opposing a judicial nominee for having doctrinaire views on abortion the same as demanding that he or […]

OK, my friends and I are playing "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" on the Xbox. It has a better plot than either Episode I or II. Anyway, there is a series of puzzles that require some mathematical ability, and the first three were easy. The fourth was difficult: Problem: 4 * 14 * […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is far more of a cowboy than the man he regularly maligns, President George W. Bush. Demonstrating the Old West ideal of giving the accused a "fair trial followed by a public hanging," Krugman pronounces Bush guilty and therefore needs not bother with proving anything. Krugman's latest screed works […]

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru takes issue with colleague Byron York's (and by extension my own) view that it is inaccurate to tar Senate judiciary committee Democrats as "anti-Catholic." However, Ponnuru acknowledges the vaildity of many of the points made by York and myself: So Republican rhetoric about the Democrats' having adopted a "religious test for […]

At least, that's what the Mexican consulate here in San Diego seems to be saying. Mexican officials filed a formal complaint with the Border Patrol yesterday after agents arrested a Mexican family on their way to the Mexican consulate in San Diego. According to the consulate, the five family members were within a block of […]

But James Goldsborough's column in Thursday's Union-Tribune is right-on.