The delights of scam-busting, with David St. Lawrence.

Some stunning photography from a Russian Pilot. (PJM)

MercatorNet reflects on 34 years of Roe. There are the passionate pro-lifer's, fighting more urgently than ever; the equally passionate pro-choicer's, stubbornly defensive; and a few of us in the middle who feel the whole question largely misses the point.

WSJ interview with Milton Friedman, 4 months before his death.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our hearers but by their real religion. Speak about beauty, truth, and goodness, or about a God who is simply the indwelling principle of these three, speak about a great spiritual force pervading all things, a common mind of which we are all parts, a pool of generalized spirituality to which we can all flow, and you will command friendly interest. But the temperature drops as soon as you mention a God who has purposes and performs particular actions, who does one thing and not another, a concrete choosing, commanding, prohibiting God with a determinate character. People become embarrassed or angry. Such a conception seems to them primitive and crude and even irreverent. The popular 'religion' excludes miracles because it excludes the 'living God' of Christianity and believes instead in a kind of God who obviously would not do miracles, or indeed anything else.