Andrew Stuttaford from the Wall Street Journal has these pro-free speech comments. And read this piece from the Weekly Standard on the spirit of Horace Greeley. I love history pieces like this one. Daniel Pipes writes in Front Page on how the cartoon protests are contributing to the separation of Muslims from the rest of the world.

Here's the collection of late-night TV jokes on Dick Cheney's eventful hunting trip.

This is a Washington Post review of two books on Cuba, one on Raul Castro and the other on suicide.

This think-piece from Slate on cost-benefit analysis is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how to make the best use of our limited resources. Highly recommended. I also like William Saletan's Human Nature column at Slate, with a weekly roundup of news on science and humans. Fascinating stuff.

Here's another must-read: the Atlantic links to an article they ran back in 1990 by Bernard Lewis titled "The Roots of Muslim Rage."

Here's Mark Steyn on how globalization can be negative for us when bad Third World stuff comes our way, like say the bird flu and Muslim fanaticism.