The largest academic group in England has called for boycotting the work of Israeli academics because of disagreements with Israeli occupation policy. For the moment, lets leave aside personal beliefs about whether Israeli policy ought to be condemned (and why Israel is singled out as opposed to other countries with considerably worse [...]

It appears that a “Permanent Vegatative State” may not be so permanent after all. It’s likely premature to judge the significance of this discovery, but I wonder if Terri Schaivo would have been killed if it had been known the medication could help her become somewhat conscious again. Or would things have stayed the same, [...]

First off, X-men III rocks as a movie. I highly recommend it. Great special effects, solid acting, nice plot, and even some deeper issues hidden beneath the surface. So, in honor of the greatest comic book movie franchise of all time I thought I’d tackle one such topic on leftfielder.
At one point [...]

If the Democrats have any say in the matter (and they do) one of the big issues in the upcoming election cycle will be a minimum wage increase. It has been awhile since the last minimum wage increase, the immigration debate has put the spotlight on the plight of poor workers (not to mention [...]

GM has an interesting promotion that they’ve just introduced. Buy one of their gas guzzlers, and they’ll subsidize the cost of gas so that it is below $2. Having just been in L.A. where gas was $3.30 a gallon, and where people drive 40-50 miles a day this could be a big savings [...]

So now a Democrat has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and Republicans everywhere are pointing rejoicing at the new evidence of supposed liberal hypocrisy. Well, yes and no.
Yes, because it was a dumb political move for Pelosi and Reid to push so hard on the “Republican Culture of Corruption” [...]

Back in 2003, during the gubernatorial recall election in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger made repeated references to businesses leaving California because of the high taxes. He would cite various statistics that California was losing business, and people, to Nevada and Arizona, and then blame that on the high taxes in California. This certainly wasn’t [...]

I’m fed up with the perpetual controversy over The DaVinci Code and all the other non-standard interpretations of Christianity floating around the media. But the fault doesn’t lie with any particular author, religious scholar, theologian, director, or actor. The fault lies with the Christians who let themselves get riled up about this kind [...]

President Bush says that we need to secure our borders. He has proposed added 6000 new border patrol agents (increasing the total border patrol force by 50%) and supplementing the border patrol with national guard units until the new agents can be fully trained. He wants to put cameras, fences, and unmanned vehicles [...]

In honor of Senator Majority Leader Frist’s decision that the Senate will soon debate the Federal Marriage Amendment, I have two other amendment proposals that they should consider post-haste: