I'm currently in escrow with my first home (a condominium -- unless I marry rich it's unlikely that I'll ever be able to afford a home in San Diego), so if posting is sporadic -- that's why. I don't know what's in half the things I've signed, but I've signed them all. Second, I received […]
I created the graphic below as a quick reference that should rebut any idea that the U.N. Security Council can be expected to be a bulwark of freedom and democracy. Feel free to link to this post, or to save and print out the graphic. But I would kindly request that you not appropriate the […]
Some opponents of war with Iraq (see below) have suggested that the more enlightened people of Europe -- especially France and Germany -- are correct in wanting to contain Saddam, rather than follow Resolution 1441 (which they supported) and disarming him. The reasoning for the disconnect between the U.S. and "old Europe" is that the […]
No. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman reveals to the benighted readers of The New York Times that the American media is less critical of war in Iraq than those in Europe. Yeah, well that's like saying that Dianne Feinstein is less liberal than Barbara Boxer. It's true -- but it's not a "Great Divide." […]
It's not that I ever expect to earn anything resembling a living from this blog, but, in the interest of possibly making some cash from this endeavor, I've chosen to plug Amazon.com. If you use one of the links to the left (scroll down if necessary) to buy something, I get a little cash. Right […]
The latest on the Marc Rich pardon scandal. Yes, I know it's two years old, but in a recent interview with NBC's Katie Couric, former President Bill Clinton has the cajones to try the "big lie." Couric: In this month's edition of The Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows writes, "Clinton had the worst beginning of an […]
Sunday's New York Times magazine has an excellent first-person article by Harriet McBryde Johnson, a lawyer and disabled rights activist. Johnson recounts her experiences with Princeton professor Peter Singer -- the man who maintains that animals have more right to life than infants (if their parents don't want them). It is a chilly Monday in […]
I've heard many liberal commentators say things along those lines -- that the U.S. government is not proving its case and the "conservative" media (aka the "mainstream media") is not performing its watchdog role. Well, I was just in the grocery store and I think they're right. The cover of this week's Weekly World News, […]
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Some senile senior Democrats are accusing the Central Intellegence Agency of sabotaging the inspections and hiding weapons details with regard to Iraq. Excuse me, but according to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, Saddam Hussein is supposed to reveal all of this stuff to the U.N. -- there is nowhere in 1441 a requirement that the […]