Sunday Link Blast - April 15

• Indiana was still sterilizing 'defectives' until 1974 -
  Don't feel too superior - we were still doing it in Alberta until 1972.
  
  
• US Army plans powered armour suits -
  Robert Heinlein's novel length defence of militarism Starship Troopers predicted them in 1959.
  
  
• This weeks American Editorial cartoons -
  From Bob Geiger.
  
  
• World Bank soon rid of Wolfowitz? -
  White House appointee was architect of Iraq invasion and planned to withhold billions from Developing World.
  
  
• Americans offered to attack Iran for UK -
  While the Brits quietly settled the crisis diplomatically Bush, as I blogged at the time, was salivating at the chance to start a war.
  
  
• Michael Moore provides free health care to 9/11 emergency workers
  The New York Post calls him sick for doing it.
  
  
• Cell phone towers causing Bee die off? -
  I know Drudge jumped on this one, but there's some evidence for it.
  
  
• Leo Strauss and the Calgary School -
  Eugene has a long piece on the philosophical links underlying neo-conservatism's American and Canadian branches. Consider the concept of the Straussian Noble Lie in context with Conservative denials of a hidden post majority agenda.