The U.S. won’t violate the ABM treaty if it builds a missile defense system. All President Bush has to do is tell Russia that it will withdraw from the treaty. Six months later the U.S. would not be bound by it. Of course, that assumes that the ABM treaty is still in effect. One of […]
Words mean things. So Mike Potemra reviewed The Dictionary of Dangerous Words.
“Danger Zone for Double-Talk“
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This passage illustrates why I hate most literary criticism:
[Professor] Fitting believes that far from intentionally subverting [science fiction], [Philip] Dick was often “confused,” which made his work seem more complicated than it actually was.
Well, much of the postmodern pap I’ve read is often “confused,” which makes it seem more complicated than it actually is. Deconstructionsim […]
North Korea will suffer another famine this year. This tragedy can be avoided, but that would require that totalitarian state to give up its power and acknowledge the God-given rights all North Koreans possess. A European Union (EU) delegation visiting the Communist state offered fertilizer and ag equipment. They should have demanded privatization of agriculture. […]
Wisconsin Democrats in one house of the state legislature recently dumped their female leader. The Democrats have also never had a black or other minority as a legislative leader. Local radio yapper and columnists, Mark Belling, makes this observation:
Imagine if a company had a workforce that had more women than men and had a sizable […]
Pete Du Pont plainly describes the anti-trade protesters who pranced around Quebec City as socialists.
They are one part 19th-century Luddites arguing that trade and global commerce (for the Luddites it was machines and the industrial revolution) will cause exploitation, unemployment and poverty. And they are one part 20th-century Marxists, justifying violence (they threw Molotov cocktails […]
Lance is still alive!! Long live Lance!
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Is Minnesota Nice dead? Drunken Twins fans threw stuff at ex-Twin Chuck Knoblauch. The story does go on to offer some explanations of increase fan rowdyness at games.
“Cheap-Seat Rowdyism is Sign of Troubling Trend”
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Stephen Moore makes the unfortunate prediction that the federal budget may grow 7% this years–twice the rate under Bill Clinton. Moore also observes, “If Republicans allow the budget to grow at twice the rate it did under Clinton, many conservatives are going to start asking the legitimate question: what are Republicans good for?” That’s why […]
Colby, Colby, Colby! You lasted until the end because you could win immunity at will, but your final strategy stunk. Why choose to boot Keith over Tina when you even knew you had a better shot to win the million bucks with Keith? Let’s back up further. Why did you help get Jerri kicked off? […]
Ed Trudeau is a jerk. Instead of finding another way of being competitive in the Burlington, WI gasoline business, he decided to cry to the government and complain that chain stations were charging too little. Yesterday, Trudeau was selling gas for $1.85 a gallon, but a competing station was selling gas for $1.69 a gallon. […]
I fell for the myth that Thomas Jefferson sexually exploited one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Now, a group of scholars say the evidence is flimsy. This report won’t receive anywhere near the same attention as the January 2000 one. That’s because that one was used by Bill Clinton’s sympathizers to defend an immoral man. […]
Like Ronald Reagan, President Bush is rejecting the morally bankrupt argument that the only defense against nuclear war is mutually assured destruction. It’s perfect that the first letters of that euphanism spell “MAD” becuase such a policy is mad.
A proper role of government is to protect its citizens from foreign invasion. Whether it’s from a […]
Anti-capitalistic feelings can’t simply be swept under the rug. Today’s protests world-wide demonstrate that many people think global capitalism is a threat. It isn’t a threat, but with huge, complicated trade agreements like NAFTA and the WTO, many will find loopholes and exceptions that benefit some while harming others.
Advocates of free markets and limited […]
