The Truth About Hybrid Cars

There’s been a lot of nonsense written lately that reads as if it had been written by plants of the US automakers, who are trying desperately to convince us that the gas-swilling sleds they build are what we actually want. One of these, by Jamie Lincoln Kitman of the New York Times, which has [...]

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. . . And Home of the Brave?

The cowards at Borders seem to feel that self-censorship is the best policy when it comes to Islamic terrorists. The April / May issue of Free Inquiry will not be in their bookstores because it reprints a couple of the cartoons from Denmark.
''For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is [...]

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Is Usama bin Laden an Islamist? Maybe Not

A very coherent editorial by Dr. Sedat Laciner in the newspaper Turkish Weekly analyzes the ideology of Usama bin Laden (a plague upon him) and concludes that his identity as an Islamist is the least of his guiding principles. Dr. Laciner decries the West's tendency to see Islamic cultures as if they were all [...]

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New Attacks Against the Internet

During February and March of this year, several significant attacks were made against one of the core components of the Internet, the Domain Name System. This is the service that changes names we recognize, like www.yahoo.com, into the number-only address that the Internet's servers and routers use to actually find the website. If [...]

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