The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring" marks the beginning of a sea change: the mass attack on technology and progress as a whole, for environmental reasons.

The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."

Somebody in Europe has realized what's crystal clear to anyone with a brain: reducing carbon emissions destroys your economy.

The Trust doesn't answer to anybody anymore. They don't even have to be right.

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.