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A few things first. I am probably as anti-government as anyone, both intellectually and emotionally. That being said, I’m from a military family which has been fighting American wars since the Revolution, and being a weightlifter, I have several friends who are cops. Some are old school, some are new school; I consider them good […]

From WND: When Saudi Arabia announced a new policy to allow tourists, it brought attention to the official Supreme Commission for Tourism’s website, which explicitly stated Jews were barred from applying for visas. But since WorldNetDaily published a story early this morning about the site’s contents, the reference to Jews has been eliminated, and the […]

From the Anchorage Daily News:He [Tom Maloney] was fascinated by rockets and airplanes, mastered rock climbing, and obtained his pilot’s license at age 14. Fifteen months after he enrolled at Central, on a Saturday morning in November 1998, the eighth-grader strung up a rope and hung himself at his parents’ home. When paramedics arrived, he […]

I’m all for hot pants in women’s soccer. It is ironic that Herr Blatter will probably be far more infamous for this statement, which is actually quite reasonable from a marketing point of view, than for the fact that he is one of the most outrageously corrupt officials ever to grace the sporting world. His […]

Robert Novak reports: The Bush administration is bracing for the first hostile book written by a former official in January when Paul O’Neill publishes an account of his two years as secretary of the treasury. Pittsburgh industrialist O’Neill left Washington angrily after being fired Dec. 6, 2002, and began work on a book. The White […]

Walter Williams raises some excellent points about the Constitutionality of secession, and the unlikelihood that such exercising such a right would be permitted. I only wonder what the Federal excuse for an invasion would be. I expect that all of those who still believe that the Civil War was primarily about slavery – all the […]

I would love to hear your official review of “Return of the King”. I am headed to the theaters this evening and though I’ve heard some hype,… I would love to hear the opinion of an avid Tolkien reader. Insights? Favorite parts? True to the story? First, it bears repeating again that no one but […]

William F. Buckley writes: There are of course shoals out there. They are economic realities. They drain the value of the dollar and the vat of human enterprise. But there is something else to look out for, which is the credibility of democratic practice. If everybody preaches A while condoning B, you get not only […]

This is the second response to The Irrational Atheist selected, from one SS. It is noteworthy primarily for correctly ascertaining that the Socrates quote actually had nothing directly to do with the subject of atheism, but more on that later. I’m not sure if the person who wrote this emailed it to me, or if […]

“The EU has even described Switzerland’s position on future membership of the bloc as ‘controversial’. Commentators say Brussels has always seen the bilaterals as a first stage towards full membership of the bloc – a view certainly not held by the People’s Party. And they believe Brussels would be unwilling to continue negotiations if it […]