Good article by Stanley Kurtz addresses morality, law, taboos, and alternative sexuality, in the thoughtful way that ethics used to be taught, when it was taught properly:
There is a mystery at the heart of the gay-marriage debate. I call it the “libertarian question.” The libertarian question (really a series of questions) goes like this: Why [...]
The Chronicle: 5/2/2003: The Neoconservative-Conspiracy Theory: Pure Myth is a good summary of one of the most pervasive recent conspiracy theories:
The ruins of Saddam Hussein’s shattered tyranny may provide additional evidence of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, but one poisonous by-product has already begun to seep from under the rubble. It is [...]
This blog is too mean. Please enjoy this inspiring pitcher of the way things can be if we all visualize Whirled Peas:
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It’s already received wisdom that the right way to build an enterprise WiFi network is with a small number of smart switches and a large number of dumb (and cheap) access points that do little more than act as remote radios for the switch. Symbol pioneered the concept, and now everybody else (especially switch [...]
UPDATED 2008: This is a silly post, isn’t it?
InfoWorld reports that Google is already using Blogger internally:
Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology, told an audience here at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference that the company has started using Pyra’sblog tool for internal communications and product development.
Good for them, blog tools make for good intra-company [...]
ABC News reports that Shiite Muslims in Iraq are beginning to cooperate with Garner in the run-up to Monday’s conference:
Monday’s conference, second in a series likely to extend well into May, was expected to attract 300 to 400 delegates from political organizations that had opposed Saddam Hussein and from other Iraqi interest groups, said a [...]
London’s Daily Telegraph has turned up another interesting memo:
Iraqi intelligence documents discovered in Baghdad by The Telegraph have provided the first evidence of a direct link between Osama bin Laden’s al-Qa’eda terrorist network and Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Papers found yesterday in the bombed headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Iraq’s intelligence service, reveal that an al-Qa’eda envoy was [...]
Lest we forget, Jay Garner’s office asked CENTCOM to guard that museum in Baghdad:
KUWAIT CITY — In a memo sent two weeks before the fall of Baghdad, the Pentagon office charged with rebuilding Iraq urged top commanders of U.S. ground forces to protect the Iraqi National Museum and other cultural sites from looters.
“Coalition forces [...]
Mean Mr. Mustard hates Star Trek, and for all the right reasons: it’s naive socialist utopianism.
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This post of Brink Lindsey’s is so good it bears repeating:
America the Liberator
A year and a half ago, monsters murdered 3,000 Americans. America’s response, thus far: to liberate 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq from two of the most hideous tyrannies on earth.
Instead of revenge, beneficence. What a truly wonderful country we live in.
Amen.
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