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Today Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the West Point graduation ceremony. The Associated Press lead paragraph: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making no mention of the prisoner-abuse scandal that has led to calls for his ouster, told a cheering crowd of graduating cadets Saturday that they will help win the global […]

Those interested in politics can just skip this item. Warner Bros. announced this week that it would be penalizing video game publishers who put out bad games based on their licenses by demanding higher royalty payments. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter last week, WBIE senior vice president Jason Hall revealed that his company is now […]

Paul Krugman complains that President Bush suffers from an "infallibilty complex." To resort to a schoolyard retort (the level of Krugman's arguments): "It takes one to know one." On a related note: Over at Random Jottings, they're updating Paul Krugman's job chart.

Slate's one-trick pony, Jacob Weisberg, author of their "Bushisms" feature has stuck his foot in it again. "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."—Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004 As Eugene Volokh notes, and anyone who had been following the story would know, […]

Human rights organizations, and others, often make the argument that we should follow the Geneva Conventions because if we do not, then our opponents in future wars would use that as an excuse to mistreat American soldiers that they capture. This argument is often applied (bizarrely) by human rights organizations to terrorists who do not […]

I've often said that the problem with zero-tolerance policies is that they are a poor substitute for common sense. But there's always the exception that proves the rule -- where administrators demonstrate they are so bereft of common sense that a zero-tolerance policy is needed to make up for this moral flaw. This is a […]

And a dollar short. Blog from the Core is 2-years-old yesterday.

As we go through Saddam's extensive files and continue to try to bring order to Iraq, Bush's "lies" are starting to fall apart come true. There are no WMDs in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. These don't get appropriate play in the old media -- and it's a big reason why […]

For a couple of decades now, the ACLU and various local athiests have been on a (pardon the pun) crusade to remove crosses from public land. One of the first cases was of the cross atop Mt. Helix in La Mesa. The city of La Mesa managed to wrangle out of the ACLU's hold by […]

I've often written that the United Nations is a mostly-useless organization. Some of the world's worst abusers of human rights are regularly placed on its Human Rights committee; the Middle East's lone democracy is regularly attacked by racist Arab and Muslim nations; it regularly ignores massacres and genocide around the world; and the list goes […]