![]() Australians Obsessed With News Anchor in Low-Cut Top Apparently the new "relaxed" network news spins her around the desk and lets her show a little leg. ![]() Governor Wants Minnesota to Become "Saudi Arabia of Renewable Fuels" Iowa produces 716 million gallons of ethanol a year, versus Minnesota's 389 million. But Iowa's government is too busy talking about spending $800 million of some Iowans' earnings on subsidies for others. ![]() More Than a Month Later, UN Gets Around to Appointing a Tsunami-Relief Chief It's former President Bill Clinton. The tsunami happened over a month ago...where has the UN been all this time? ![]() Czechs Commemorate Fall of Secret Police It's the 15-year anniversary of the death of the Communist secret police there. Sometimes the rest of us need to be reminded that Communism wasn't a well-intentioned system that happened to be run badly, but a system that was so morally and rationally bankrupt that it cannot last. ![]() Iowa Legislature Thinking of Reviving the Values Fund At what point will it be realized that most contemporary economic development incentives punish many businesses in order to subsidize a few? ![]() Canadians Surveyed Want a National Referendum on Gay Marriage About a third want legal gay marriage, about a third want civil unions without marriage, and about a third don't like either solution ![]() Possible Reversal in Late Strains Between China, Taiwan ![]() Japan, Inc. Now "Japan Worried-About-Foreign-Takeovers" Amazing what fifteen or twenty years will do. Now the G7 are worried about China, and for good reason. ![]() President Proposes $350 Million to Help Build a Palestinian State A healthy, democratic Palestinian state would certainly take the wind out of some dangerous ideological sails. But Iowa gets about $350 million a year just in Federal road dollars. Full State of the Union text. ![]() Greenspan II Potential successors debated; NBER president Martin Feldstein, deficit hawk and private-accounts guru, is a front-runner ![]() On "Moderates" in Europe and America "The misunderstanding comes whenever an American describes another American as being on the political right. To a European, that means he's a nazi. Now that the Democrats are taking all of their cues from Europe, it means the same to them." ![]() Russian Paper Protests Censorship with White Space Brilliant protest. And it's been done before. |