Lee Smith in Tablet chronicles the discovery of two apparent Pakistanis (probably working for Iranian intelligence) who spent nearly two years in a Washington, D.C. building literally filled with U.S. law enforcement employees from multiple agencies. Which is the more disturbing: the men’s possible mission as an advance party for assassins, or the fact that it took a U.S. postal agent to uncover their plot?
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
