Commentary reviews the history: Since then, at each turn of the road, as the Muslim Brotherhood gradually hijacked the Egyptian transition, commentators told us\u00a0there was\u00a0no need\u00a0to worry. The\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0would only contest a small number of seats (they did not); they would not have a candidate of their own for the presidency (they did); and their […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Bulgaria’s former foreign minister in the Times of Israel: Israel should more assertively seek to join NATO and the European Union, Bulgaria\u2019s former foreign minister has told The Times of Israel. If anybody is qualified to give Israel such advice, it\u2019s likely Solomon Passy, who spearheaded the former Warsaw Pact member state\u2019s successful membership bids […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

We can work it out: “It won’t be easy, but arguably, the Germans have more to fear from being left isolated within the eurozone than they do from a new bargain with Britain. If the choice is between the UK leaving or getting some EU powers back, Berlin may \u2013 after a lot of posturing, […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From an old oleh in the Times of Israel: I don\u2019t have to worry that my next bus journey could be my last or think about where I am physically sitting in a caf\u00e9 or restaurant, or even whether to risk going to the caf\u00e9 or restaurant altogether. Today, I cannot ignore the suffering of […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From the Mercatus Center: While a greater role for the UN is still a long way from it \u201ctaking over the Internet\u201d as some fear, this is just the beginning. If this year\u2019s meeting is successful, the countries that get their ideas adopted in the treaty will be even bolder at meetings already planned for […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

BHL explain where they’re coming from on worker freedom: We BHLs are for the most part not hard, deontological libertarians. We are liberals who think that a major part of the justification for property rights and market institutions has to do with their expected consequences for all decent, conscientious people. We think that in the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From the Times of India: Observing that security situation has improved in Jammu and Kashmir,\u00a0Army\u00a0on Monday said there was no move to reduce the number of troops deployed in the state as it might lead to problems for security forces engaged in counter terrorist operations for over two decades. “No, there is no such proposal… […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Perhaps some advances in quantum computing: \u201cQuantum computing is one of the holy grails of science and engineering,\u201d says Reimer. \u201cIn conventional computing, we use the charge of electrons, either positive or negative, to encode either a zero or one. That\u2019s a \u2018bit,\u2019 the basic building block of digital calculations. We can also encode a […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

TechCrunch on a controversy involving home routers and Cisco’s Terms of Service: Ars Technica\u2019s Jon Brodkin\u00a0experiencedthe issue himself after buying a Cisco Linksys EA3500 dual-band wireless router.\u00a0Soon after installing it, he was notified of a firmware update. A sign up page appeared for Cisco Connect Cloud when he tried to access\u00a0the browser\u2019s internal administrative Web […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Your product is so uncool, you couldn’t possibly have stolen it from Apple, an we’re not sure why Apple would want to claim it, anyway: A judge in the UK handed a win to Samsung in anintellectual property dispute, calling the Galaxy Tab “not as cool” as the iPad, and therefore not likely to get […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From Commentary: At a time when Democrats around the country, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have been vociferously claiming there is no such thing as voter fraud in the United States and that efforts to uphold the integrity of elections are a form of racism, the senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus appears to […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From John Steele Gordon at Commentary: How about 17 times?\u00a0 That\u2019s the number of states that elected Republican governors in 2010, thanks to Tea Party demands for fiscal conservatism. And as\u00a0Breitbart\u00a0reports today, 17 is the number of those states that have seen a drop in unemployment since January 2011.\u00a0While the national unemployment rate has dropped […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Luigi Zingales at the City Journal: A recent\u00a0New York Times\u00a0op-ed by Bill Scher, \u201cHow Liberals Win,\u201d must be commended for its honesty. Scher presents a compelling historical narrative of how Democrats are happy to ally themselves with big business in a Faustian pact to foster anti-market policies. … In fact, by inverting Scher\u2019s argument, one […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via Ann Althouse: These burgeoning forests will then rather neatly lock up in the biosphere all that extra carbon that we have been releasing into the atmosphere. Or some of it. But the major point of this paper is that far from climate change being a threat to the tropical forests, it looks as if […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The American Enterprise Institute comments on California’s latest scheme to “jump-start” the housing market” With billions of dollars at stake, the plan\u2019s legality will be challenged by bond holders resulting in a multi-year legal battle. We are already 6 years into the crisis. This will only further delay the clearing of markets. The question is […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

From God Particle to Fraud Particle? Today, Ian Low at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and a couple of buddies comb through the data in an attempt to throw some light on this question. Their conclusion is that the data is consistent with at least two other particles that are not the standard Higgs boson. […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

In Vegas, of course: Initially the house was commissioned by Vard Wallace, an engineer who built a business selling drafting machines and airplane parts to the likes of Lockheed & Co. during World War II. Wallace, also an inventor who patented the first \u201cskateboard\u201d (a plank with wheels and a short pole for steering), picked […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Reports Breitbart.com: MoveOn had written an e-mail to its members that Barron was \u201cunfit to serve\u201d because he has spent his career \u201cspecializing in divisive, offensive, and just plain outrageous statements and behavior.” Now, in an amazing twist, MoveOn e-mailed an apology \u00a0– for its condemnation of Barron — to its members, according to the\u00a0New […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n