Independent’s Eye by Joe GandelmanWhen NPR shocked many by axing commentator Juan Williams for comments he made on Fox News about fearing Muslims on planes it sparked a battle to define exactly what his firing meant…Was it smothering free speech? Zero tolerance political correctness gone mad? A consequence for bigoted comments that if uttered by a Pat Buchanan about African [Read More]

Science magazine reports that researchers are close to coming up with a way to exterminate cockroaches based on the males’ extraordinary sex drive. This is both good news and bad for Hawaii which boasts, not loudly or often, 19 species of cockroaches. The good news is that scientists are coming up with a way to kill cockroaches that does not [Read More]

I feel guilty about it, if you want to know the truth.Patrice Hill, chief economic correspondent for The Washington Times, reports that while the down economy has caused the rest of America to struggle, Washington, D.C., is flourishing.While America has lost 8.3 million jobs since the beginning of the recession, the Washington metropolitan region has lost only 35,000.And by August [Read More]