John Baker’s Blog

According to This Is London:
Under anti-terrorism measures due to come into force within two years, the US authorities insist they need to do background checks on all UK air passengers travelling to Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.
Direct flights to popular holiday destinations such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Toronto and Mexico City would all [...]

Katie Couric for CBS Evening News asked the presidential candidates what book they would bring with them to the White House. I fell asleep reading the answers:
John McCain, Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Barack Obama, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin - a biography of Lincoln
Mitt Romney, John Adams by David McCullough
Mick Huckabee, Whatever [...]

It was good meeting with you yesterday and discussing my father’s legacy. On the day when the nation will honor my father, I wanted to follow up with a personal note.
There has been, and will continue to be, a lot of back and forth in the political arena over my father’s legacy. It is a [...]

According to The New York Times, a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests it is impossible to calculate the pain that terrorist attacks inflict on victims and society. But when statisticians look at cold numbers, they have variously estimated the chances of the average person dying in America at the hands [...]