I had this same problem with my professor: Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers. The school’s history department recently adopted a policy that says it’s OK to consult the popular online encyclopedia, but that it can’t be cited as an authoritative source by students. The policy…

It is about time! They should have done this months ago: The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran for 72 hours as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines. […] The…

Boy is this guy going to upset the left, he is dissing their religion. And doesn’t he know that anyone who doesn’t believe in global warming is an idiot? It’s like not believing in evolution or something. Q: But you’re not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?- A: Environmentalism…

But Bolton says that it’s not a good deal: North Korea has tentatively agreed to close down its nuclear weapons program in exchange for energy aid, U.S. and Chinese officials said Tuesday. But the proposed deal was being reviewed by officials in the negotiators’ capitals before becoming final. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the…

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