City buses across America now covertly recording passengers’ conversations

I’m certain that President Bush thought he’d get a political boost from this disaster, just as he did on September 11, 2001. But the tide has turned, and people are angry with him and the Federal government  [more...]

I just read an article in the Washington Post about the naming of a federal coordinator for the Gulf Coast recovery. Bush has picked the FDIC chairman and a big campaign donor, Donald E. Powell. But what I found much  [more...]

Carl Sagan, in his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, gives us a "Baloney Detection Kit" that provides a framework for dissecting and debunking. Take a look at this list of common fallacies  [more...]