The fear that we're about to be over-run, or that our leaders are about to over-run us, is a dominant force in our modern politics.

Free exchange of SIM cards, which control what a cell phone does, should become the law of the land. Separate the network from the equipment, as is done on the Internet. Put that in the hopper at Congress and the FBI...then watch the pigs squeal.

We’re trying out something here called News-Directory.Org. Let me know what you think of it.

It also reflects what I've said about Moore's Law since I started covering it, six years ago now. It's not just exponential, but compounded. Breakthroughs happen in multiple directions, all driving exponential change, which leads to more breakthroughs driving exponential change. Faster and faster gets faster and faster.

After his assassination, this second Martin Luther King was also pushed aside. We are now 39 years removed from his death. Nominal rights have been granted, middle-class and upper-class blacks live lives their grandparents couldn't dream of. But the rising tide did not lift all boats.

The real reason for the Iraq disaster is the delusion, the assumption that the Global War on Terror is a new Cold War, that some religious zealots in caves are the literal equivalent of a Soviet Union which had, at its height, the ability to destroy the globe at the press of a button. They don't have any other way to think about it, so they go to the delusion, and adopt its assumptions.

The Apollo 1 disaster shocked middle class America to its soul. With everything else under question, the space program had become a rock on which we built our mental church. Now it all lay in ruins.

Adams' conclusions on faith and the nature of reality are not far removed from those of the movie What the Bleep, except he gives the person who can figure all this out special powers to control mens' minds and (his character thinks) to stop the Total War between Islam and Christianity gathering over mankind.

Like Pele a generation ago, David Beckham is coming to America. This is supposed to grow professional soccer in the U.S. into a true competitor to baseball, football, basketball and NASCAR. Won't happen.

I don't know that liberals are ready for a re-framing of this type, on abortion or any other issue. But until they are they will continue to lose the argument for progress. Because its enemies are quite willing to call even a single cell a life, if it will make your body theirs.