Sen. Orrin Hatch just had the balls to denounce “fear-mongering” on the FISA issue. Not, mind you, fear-mongering from the White House, such as the bogus 11th-hour warnings of an attack on Capitol Hill that was used to ensure hasty passage of the Protect America Act. No, that’s cool. Rather, he’s worried about fear-mongering on […]

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Awwww yeah.

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The Senate just passed a cloture vote to proceed with consideration of the More Evil version of the FISA amendment bill, by 76-10.

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If you happen to be looking for extra stockings to stuff, now is as good a time as any to hit the ol’ PayPal tip-jar in the upper-left corner of your screen. Or, to make it easy for those of you joining us via RSS:

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I survey the coming fight over FISA reform over at Ars Technica. An excerpt: The battle in the Senate over how to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act begins on Monday when, over the objections of prominent Democratic colleagues, Majority Leader Harry Reid will introduce the White House–supported version of a FISA reform bill approved […]

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Reid’s introducing the Intel version of the FISA reform bill. More shortly.

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Why, New York Times, why, if you’re going to give op-ed space to an atheist to discuss his views, would you decide to print two grafs that come off as whining followed by a sub-sophomoric attempt at refuting Pascal’s Wager? The Wager is an appallingly bad argument that should take about two sentences to dispense […]

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Sure, a presidential debate about science sounds like a good idea, but given that most Americans reject even the notion of divinely-guided evolution, I can imagine some depressing trajectories for such an event.

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For the sake of balance, I’ll note that I agree with Ezra here: Expecting the government to anticipate promising new green technologies and direct dollars in the right direction is stupid and wasteful. Just penalize environmental externalities and let the market figure out the most efficient alternative. The latter policy is actually “pro-market”; the former […]

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Hetracil, a drug that supposedly “cured” homosexuality, was an elaborate, clever joke. But apparently, researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered the real thing… at least for fruit flies. As John Tierney wryly notes, it will be interesting to see whether the Leon Kass types denounce such technology as “meddling with nature” or “playing […]

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