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From the Better Late than Never file: Saudi Arabia today finally admitted that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijacker/terrorists were Saudi citizens. Uhh...thanks, the U.S. government and its citizens really appreciates you acknowledging that fact, 4 1/2 months after the fact!

There are lazy people in the world. You know the kind. They're the ones who will spend 15 minutes in a mall parking lot looking for a space close to the store they want to shop at, instead of just parking just a little bit farther and walking. I'll admit it was the same for […]

I've long opposed China's "one-child" policy on the simple grounds that it restricts one of the most basic freedoms we are given as human beings: Life. My opposition turned to disgust and outrage after reading Tom Clancy's "The Bear and The Dragon" several years ago. In Clancy's novel, he describes the plight of a Chinese […]

The Washington Post's William Raspberry has a puff piece on Cuba in today's paper. Okay, we didn't see Cuba. We saw a few small slices of Havana. But we saw enough "unofficial" people in the streets and shops to believe we have a fair assessment of Cuban attitudes. They hate our embargo, and they hate […]

I'd like to congratulate the New England Patriots for their win in today's Super Bowl. For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting. I'd also like to acknowledge my good friend, Kevin Hill, a New England-native and Patriots fan, for his dedication to […]

Matt LaBash of the Weekly Standard recently visited Cuba and was given a tour (sort-of) of the infamous Camp X-Ray. Their restroom arrangements are pretty spartan. They get a white bucket for emergency squirts, while they are instructed to hold two fingers up for the alternative. At that time, a guard shackles them and takes […]

Idiot of the day: Today's contestant is Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). His entry: "I think what we actually heard in the State of the Union speech was the �police� State of the Union speech."

Al Gore had his coming out party yesterday in his home state of Tennessee, saying he intended to "rejoin the national debate." While agreeing with President Bush's handling of the war, Gore said that Bush was doing just about everything else wrong. (Let's just ignore the 80 percent plus approval ratings for a moment.) Gore […]

Well, Saturday's Washington Post has an editorial on the decision to expand health insurance coverage to unborn babies. In the past, I've done my best to follow Associated Press conventions (abortion-rights supporters/opponents) in addressing the abortion issue, because I think that the name-calling on both sides is destructive. I'm reconsidering my position after seeing the […]

Well, I've just paid big money to upgrade this site to "Blogger Pro" status. This allows me all sorts of additional features, most notably spell-checking (you know I need it, I know I need it), and a variety of other things that will help me, help you. One of the bonuses of Blogger Pro is […]