Friday, April 8. 2005
Illegal Immigration Illegal means illegal. The new Minutemen are doing what 90% of Americans would want to do. I've talked myself hoarse on this subject. Disgusted with both Clinton and Bush Admins. on this issue - weenies. Got nothing further to say. Read Confederate Yankee here.
A Thanks to Ward Churchill
WC raised awareness of the reality of US campuses: "What happened? In the 1960s, universities collapsed “in the face of a little juvenile swagger.” They never recovered, most of them, and now Hamilton College (among many others) is reaping the fruit. Which leads us to the second, and more general, issue raised by the Hamilton follies, an issue we have often adverted to in these pages: the politicization of higher education." Read entire: Click here: Notes & Comments April 2005
Kudlow Defends Tax Cuts
The Vast Left Wing conspiracy
NR Editor's preface: "EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece is excerpted from NR White House Correspondent Byron York's new book, . York's new book details how MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, 527 groups, Al Franken, and other Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations. Among other things, the book discusses MoveOn's origins and how, in the summer of 2004, the group used its Internet organizing power in an attempt to create the impression in the media that there was a wave of anti-Bush anger sweeping the country."
Read piece: Click here: Byron York on The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy on National Review Online
Catholicism
Hugh Hewitt on criticism of Catholicism:
"But there's a second journalistic sin at work in the agenda-driven commentary about the Pope's "failure" to modernize the Church on issues of celibacy, contraception, and the ordination of women. Simply put, most of the American media is simply ignorant of the Pope's critics on the right. There is a valid case to be made that whatever disenchantment existed with John Paul II came more from those Catholics still unreconciled to Vatican II, and deeply distressed about John Paul II's refusal to steer back into the pre-1960 Church." Click here: Criticizing John Paul II
A Professor Speaks
This is why we need heroes like Horrowitz. I think the Anonymous says it all.
"Despite my European background I found myself deeply surprised by the political bias on college campuses here in America. Left-wing bias is almost undetectable among European college faculty compared to America’s academic institutions. The bias that I have encountered has so many facets that I am still encountering new ones. " Click here: FrontPage magazine.com :: Confessions of a Politically Incorrect Professor by Anonymous
City Journal Speaks Truth to Power
How the City of NY messes things up. It's the West Side, now. Steven Malanga:
"But far from encouraging this eruption of the free market, the businessman mayor is out to derail any development of the MTA site that competes with his plan to build a stadium there to lure the 2012 Olympics. In pushing his centrally planned vision, the mayor who was once a CEO seems to have lost faith in the free market and succumbed to New York’s political culture, which reflexively favors its own idea of how the city’s economy should work over the more inventive and spontaneous visions of entrepreneurs. That culture believes that it is okay for government to warehouse valuable land, to employ restrictive zoning that unreasonably limits how the free market can work, and to micromanage economic-development projects with paralyzing inefficiency. Occasionally, the free market fights back and wins, as in Times Square, where market forces overwhelmed a government plan to make the area an uninspiring office district and instead revived it as a bustling entertainment and tourism mecca." Click here: City Journal Spring 2005 | How Not to Develop the Far West Side by Steven Malanga Hillary Meter here
The Pan Am Building The architectural story of "New York's ugliest building," and the plan that almost destroyed Grand Central Station: Click here: BOOKFORUM | apr/may 2005 Tone Deaf Music and the mind, with music: Click here: Cognitive Daily A Case Against Ideological Diversity Intelligence as a Cult
This piece by Steven Lagerfeld in the Wilson Quarterly is, like, you know, really intelligent:
It may seem implausible to speak of a cult of smarts in the age of Paris Hilton and 30-second political attack ads, when it appears that America is being relentlessly dumbed down. But don’t blame dumb people for that. Dumbing down is the idea of film and television executives, political consultants, newspaper magnates, and other very intelligent people. It’s a shrewd moneymaking strategy. It also reveals one of the problems of putting too much stock in pure brainpower: Smart people are uniquely capable of producing noxious ideas. http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=105057
Thursday, April 7. 2005
Still Not Fonda Fonda She sounds severely messed-up and lost, but is selling books. Her savings account is probably OK. Jonathan Yardley: "But then with Fonda -- for all her intelligence, her commitment to her ideals, her fundamental decency -- it always boils down to self." Read entire, and you will have up-to-date chat for your fancy cocktail parties with the disgusting baked brie, when you usually have nothing significant or scintillating to "bring to the table." Plus you don't have to read the book, if you're a "slow reader": Click here: First Person, Singular (washingtonpost.com)
Tom Delay Spotted Crossing Border
Minnesota Politics: Finally, the Explanation
Click here: Minnesota medical marijuana bill advances Krugman's Ailment
We are beginning to feel badly for Paulie K, whose condition appears to be deteriorating alarmingly. Can someone who cares please bring him to a board-certified shrink? There is one on almost every street-corner in NYC. You can tell them by their beards, tweeds, bow-ties, and credit-card machines. Who knows - a touch of Haldol might just do the trick. He's right on the edge of the abyss. The youthful-looking James Miller has the latest sad story, plus his own tale of woe from the once-venerable, now-lamentable, Smith College: Click here: TCS: Tech Central Station - The Science Haters Calling All Farmall Fans
There are thousands of you out there, in both red and blue states. Show your pride! Proclaim your identity! Don't be just another anonymous little twit, like you really are! Be SOMEBODY, not Nunzio Nessuno or whatever his name was! And coming soon: A Maggie's Farm t-shirt with a classic Farmall H! (We will order at least ten.) Click here: Farmalls
Jeb Praises Horowitz New Google Maps
Thanks, Martin Peretz, for Honesty "If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others. He pursued his goal obstinately, they would say, without filtering his thoughts through the medical research establishment. And he didn't share his research with competing labs and thus caused resentment among other scientists who didn't have the resources or the bold--perhaps even somewhat reckless--instincts to pursue the task as he did. And he completely ignored the World Health Organization, showing his contempt for international institutions. Anyway, a cure for cancer is all fine and nice, but what about aids? "
Wednesday, April 6. 2005
Tick Tock It has been 65 days since John Kerry promised to sign Form SF-180 to release his military records. How do I know? PoliPundit has an SF-180 Clock: Click here: PoliPundit.com » The SF-180 clock Motu Proprio "The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas More have been the source of a message which spans the centuries and which speaks to people everywhere of the inalienable dignity of the human conscience, which, as the Second Vatican Council reminds us, is "the most intimate centre and sanctuary of a person, in which he or she is alone with God, whose voice echoes within them" (Gaudium et Spes, 16). " I have never read an Apostolic Letter. This one by Pope JP II proclaims Thomas More Patron Saint of Statesmen and Politicians. God knows they need their own saint. An interesting document:Click here: Motu Proprio proclaiming Saint Thomas More Patron of Statesmen and Politicians - John Paul II (31 October 2000) The Global Church The RC Church, of which I am not a member, grew from 700 million to 1.2 billion members during the papacy of JP II. As the Cardinals ponder, surely global evangelism, global freedom and global justice will be on their minds. Click here: TCS: Tech Central Station - Where Is the Poland In This New Cold War? Newspaper Index 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie-chart format. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave LA to do it. 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much. 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train. 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated. 9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist gay dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats. 10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores. 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line in the grocery store
Tuesday, April 5. 2005
Demographics The voting demographics look discouraging for the Democrats for the future. I guess America doesn't really want to be another Canada or France. Hmmm. John Fund: "A treasure trove of data on the meaning of the 2004 presidential election has just been released, and you can bet that if reporters don't look at it carefully, strategists for potential candidates will. The 2004 election numbers may explain why Hillary Clinton is taking care to present herself as a centrist." Read entire: Click here: OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
Causes of Terrorism, Again Maggie's has been over this ground several times. (I could bring the posts up if we could figure out how to do the permalinks.) This is just more evidence that Maggie's is always right. Our general view has been that terrorism is caused by terrorists - ordinary evil, destructive folks like the ones The Analyst discusses - and this supports that. When will we quit trying to "understand" badness? Rotten sleazy people are a dime a dozen in this world. What's to understand? What is worth understanding is goodness and selflessness and sacrifice and integrity. How does that kind of behavior appear in ugly apes like homo sapiens for whom the Law of the Jungle seems to come naturally? "London's Sunday Times has reported on new research that reveals that the typical al-Qaeda recruit is a well-educated professional. He is likely to have been educated in the West and come from a wealthy family, according to forensic psychiatrist and researcher Marc Sageman, who examined the backgrounds of 500 al-Qaeda members."
Allergy Allergy, like depression, is taken seriously mainly by those who have had it. And by the docs and researchers who deal with it. A truly effective treatment would be a blessing not only for the very few with life-threatening food or bee-sting allergies, but to all of the asthmatics, the dog- and cat-allergics, and the hay-fever snifflers. A new treatment may be in store, if you can hang on for a few more years: Click here: The New York Times > Health > A Therapy for Cat Allergies, Thanks to Mice Socialized Medicine I am agin' it. If you think Canada is bad, look at England. At least England allows private medicine. This piece grossly understates the real issue, which is that bureaucrats run the system: "The UK is good at developing new medical technologies, but bad at making them available to patients, a draft version of a government report says. The study blamed the centralised way the NHS was run for failing to make the most of breakthroughs in areas such as scanners and ventilators." Read entire and be glad that you're in America: Click here: BBC NEWS | Health | NHS 'not making most of progress'
Poor Paulie He showed so much promise at first. Oh Paulie, you did not listen to Maggie's last post, did you? Psychiatrists around the country are thinking, discussing and will soon provide your family with recommendations for hospitalization. It will be as soon as they figure out the degree of your insanity. I believe you may have offended quite a number of scientists, professors, philosophers, doctors and just about anyone with a brain. Either you are smoking some strange stuff or you have lost your mind. To read the entire column click here but you have been warned: Click here: The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: An Academic Question The Best (?) The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Oh goody, now we know who is the best poet, journalist, critic and author of the year. Quick get thee to the local newsstand and book store lest you be left with nothing to discuss on the way to work or at the water fountain that is if there still is a water fountain. Can't wait to find out who will be the best blogger. Click here: The Pulitzer Prizes
 Boo Hoo Red-blooded males across America are in despair. Laura Ingraham was engaged on Saturday. Francistan, Still Nuts Public acknowledgement of the Pope's death has drawn fury from the French Left: "Lowering of flags on all state buildings was "totally out of place and at the limit of legality." Click here: Reuters AlertNet - French flag tribute to Pope sparks left-wing anger Remote-Control Hunting This sounds like a Scrapple-Face piece: Click here: Hunting by remote control draws fire from all quarters | csmonitor.com As a hunter, I feel that this is a funny story, but disgusting. An African Pope Drudge and others are on this story. My opinion? Great. Or Asian or Hispanic or anything. What is this obsession with color, anyway? Does God care about color, or about souls? Click here: News Berger Cartoon
Monday, April 4. 2005
Voting, Supremes, and The Conservative Crack Up Just in case you were beginning to feel good about this beautiful day, here's 2 pieces to raise your blood pressure. Guess what party she belongs to: Click here: Governor vetoes bill requiring all voters to show identification | The Arizona Daily Star ® But out of kindness to our readers, this one will raise your spirits back up. Whatever drugs Steyn takes, I need some. Re people lining up to oppose Bolton:
"But that goes double when the 59 panjandrums lined up against you are Princeton Monteagle Jr., President Nixon's ambassador to the Spurgeon Islands; Spurgeon Monkfish III, President Ford's ambassador to the Lyman Islands; Dartmouth Monticello IV, President Johnson's personal emissary to His Serene Highness the Monteagle of Keeny; Columbia Long-Playing-Album, the first diplomat to be named by President Carter to the State Department's Name Control Agency; and Vasser Peachy-Keeny, the first woman to be named Vasser Peachy-Keeny. One sees their point, of course: Let a fellow called "John" Bolton become ambassador and next thing you know Earl and Bud will want the gig." Click here: GOP crack-up? Pardon my guffaw
The Euristan Union The News Junkie made a good point today when he wondered why any nation would voluntarily join an Empire and sacrifice their autonomy and uniqueness and freedom. Aren't those things more valuable than anything that could be gained? The Big Trunk has an absurd but real example about the EU wanting to change place names in Scotland: Click here: Power Line: April 2005 Archives
Loss of A Great Christian Thank you Fred Barnes: "EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS loved Pope John Paul II. Many felt more in harmony with him than with the leaders of their own denomination. I attend an Episcopal church and I certainly preferred the Pope. He was the world's greatest defender of orthodox, Bible-based Christianity. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and possibly a majority of its bishops are among the great diluters of classical Christianity. "Click here: A Great Christian US vs Grokster Re "file-sharing," (ie stealing): "One of the people on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court building to demonstrate against Grokster's free-for-the-taking world was Lamont Dozier. When Lamont Dozier speaks, I listen. Mr. Dozier wrote Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness," ergo he must have a clue. In a royalty-free Grokster world, says Mr. Dozier, he'd have spent his most creative years on the floor of a Detroit auto factory rather than writing Motown masterpieces." Click here: OpinionJournal - Wonder Land Add me to the list of the pro-Motown crew. Pop music without Motown would have been a very sad thing. 400,000 Just learned that Daily Kos gets over 400,000 hits/day. Holy Mackerel. Are there that many p-offed people out there? Guess so. They should all chill, and read Maggie instead. On the other hand, I was mildly p-offed at the news when we had Clinton to kick around. But we had Rush for therapy....Hey Bird Dog - if you want that kind of world-class volume, fire us (please - the pay stinks anyway) and become an Angry Left Wing anti-American Christian-hating wacko Commie pacifist Saddam-excusing, Castro-loving, Bush-bashing blog. I will not soil Maggie's Farm by providing the link to Kos - find it yourself. The Next Pope Isn't this the way the world is? It seems in very bad taste but you can be certain millions are thinking about who the next Pope should be and will be. Right Wing Nuthouse, of all people, sounds like he has inside info: Click here: Right Wing Nut House » WHO WILL WEAR THE “SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN?”: Politics served up with a smile... And a still Euristan The French may very well not approve the EU Constitution, which essentially means that the EU vision would die. Which would be good for those folks, if national identity and soverighty and national freedom mean anything to those countries. Who would willingly JOIN an empire? You're supposed to be conquered first - right? (The US has no skin in this game - these countries are in a mess anyway with their socialism, their chronically taking the wrong, submissive side of history in international affairs, their immigration debacle, and sadly they are in decline. Very pretty on the outside - rotten on the inside. And they know it, but are too proud to admit it, which is understandable.) The French seem to have imagined that it would create a Mega-France. Not so: "...At the same time, the French have begun to realize that in the enlarged EU, which took in ten new members, mostly from Eastern Europe, last year, Paris can no longer call the shots." : Click here: Unlikely threat to EU charter? The French. | csmonitor.com White Male Blogosphere I guess we have another crisis with white males dominating the blogosphere. Let's worry about it - that will do a lot of good. Talk about a small "d" democratic medium - this is the ultimate. A big welcome to anyone of any of the 3 genders, million colors and languages, etc. Jump right in - it's a big pool and the water's warm: Click here: MSNBC - Blogging Beyond the Men's Club
Saturday, April 2. 2005
The Pope The world owes a debt of gratitude to Pope JP II for his moral challenge to people, and to himself. A true Rock. And a heck of a skier, I've heard, in his younger days. A humble bearer of The Word who you could easily imagine having a Sam Adams with on the slopes, maybe at Mad River Glen, but surely not Deer Valley. What a fine send-off he is receiving from around the world.
Crazy Things Compulsive bloggers and web surfers have surely book-marked Al Jazeera already, as they probably have Daily Kos too - if only for amusement. Of course it is good to see how other folks view the world, even if we may find it despicable or out of reality. One aspect I find enlightening about Al Jazeera is the extent to which militant Islam seems to feel allied with the pacifist Left. Strange bedfellows indeed. How long can that charming romance last?
Friday, April 1. 2005
Syria and Lebanon Today in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer writes about the true Evil Axis affecting the Democratic campaign in the Middle East. America's focus needs to redirected to Syria where a true dagger in the Terrorist heart can be inflicted. Harsh words to use but "when in Rome......" Syria and the New Axis of Evil (washingtonpost.com) "As Iraq, in fits and starts, begins finding its way to self-rule, the center of gravity of the Bush Doctrine and the American democratization project shifts to Lebanon/Syria. The rapid evacuation and collapse of the Syrian position in Lebanon is crucial not just because of what it will do for Lebanon but because of the weakening effect it will have on the Assad dictatorship. We need, therefore, to be relentless in insisting on a full (and as humiliating as possible) evacuation of Syria from Lebanon, followed by a campaign of economic, political and military pressure on the Assad regime. We must push now and push hard." letters@charleskrauthammer.com Then read the article by Victor Davis Hanson, the blogger no one should miss, who writes "The Noose Tightens" clearly pointing out why Assad's demise is in everyone's best interest. VDH's Private Papers::The Noose TightensAnd finally, one last entry worth perusing is "Lebanese Politics for Beginners" by
The New Mexican-American War Sounds like the wild wild west down on the border. These new Minutemen aren't armed, but maybe they should be: "Mexican Military on Standby in Response to Minutemen Mexico's President Vicente Fox is preparing to respond militarily to a group of U.S volunteers who plan to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border starting tomorrow, positioning more than a thousand troops nearby, according to an Arizona TV station. "The Mexican military is on standby," reports NBC's Tucson affiliate KVOA. "One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They're located just across the border." Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story "There is no Marshall Earp to keep order when the Minutemen boys tangle up with the ACLU crew riding into town this time. Only the feds.....God help us. Tomorrow the CNN, the MSNBC, the FOX, and assorted other elements of the media will descend on this sleepy little place. The residents will not have to concern themselves about one group though....Mexicans....there isn't an illegal within a hundred miles of this place for the time being. Don't worry about about this area. Tombstone is reacting to this latest little dust up the same way it has for over a hundred years.....business as usual." Read entire: Click here: TOMBSTONE - The Calm Before the
Thursday, March 31. 2005
Re Schiavo, by Dr. Bob Dr. Bob reluctantly offers a humble, Christian, medically-sophisticated essay on the case:
Click here: The Doctor Is In
Arafat
DEBKAfile, which may have sources deep in Isreali intelligence, has a fascinating article on the wealth shipped to Palestine by naive western countries and kept by Arafat. Gwynnie thinks it explains more about what is happening in Palestine today than anything else she has read. Americans Recover Arafat’s plundered hoard "A part of Yasser Arafat’s secret hoard - $4 bn - has been documented and accounted for in a painstaking project undertaken by Nigel Roberts, the World Bank’s country director for the West Bank, and Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad. They have obtained partial information about another $1-2bn and found a further three to four billion invested on Arafat’s behalf by two individuals, his chief financial adviser Mohammed Rashid, and Palestinian-born international tycoon Samer Khoury.
This was reported exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive sources for the first time in DNW Issue 197 on March 11.
”You can stop going around with your hat in your hand,” a stern US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) at the London conference on Palestinian reforms earlier this month. “You have all the money you need to transform the economic situation in the Palestinian Authority.”
She told Abbas to go back to Ramallah and assume immediate control of the Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF) where the bulk of Arafat’s money was stashed, or forget about receiving a single aid dollar from international donors.
. . . . Abu Mazen was sent off from London to start selling off these assets to finance urgent projects for his impoverished people. He was warned that the $350 million pledged the Palestinians would be transferred only when it was matched by income from the sale of PIF properties – a dollar-for-dollar deal. The World Bank has projects ready to go. Roberts cited a $1bn plan to create 50,000 jobs in the Gaza Strip.
Back in Ramallah, Abu Mazen ran into his first major obstruction to divestment: Prime minister Ahmed Quriea (Abu Ala), who by withholding his signature has the power to block any Palestinian Authority measure, accused Abbas of surrendering to US-British dictates and opening the door for them to take over Palestinian funds. Then, most of the 11 PIF board members resigned or are about to do so, further disabling the fund’s operations.
. . . . Abu Mazen’s close allies warn him, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Palestinian sources, that without control of the PIF, he will never be more than a figurehead. His rivals have come to the same conclusion and are all now chasing after the billion-dollar fund hoping to lay hands on the wherewithal for buying a following. They are racing all the harder with the approach of the next Palestinian ballots – the April 28 municipal election and the July 17 parliamentary vote. A hefty cash campaign chest can promise victory. It can also buy the undying loyalty of all or some of the endemically corrupt Palestinian security and intelligence services. Conversely, candidates strapped for funds may as well give up.
Control of the PIF will also buy political control within Abu Mazen’s unruly and divided Fatah party. At the same time, some central party figures warn that the gold rush could destroy the Fatah from within." To read the whole piece, click here: http://www.debka.org/article.php?aid=1002
Books, plus Robert Lowell This is a great site and a fabulous source for commentary, book reviews and the like. There is a great column on Robert Lowell and his letters. However they only make a few of the articles available online. The Art Forum is equally chock-full of interesting stuff. Paul Mariani wrote the book Lost Puritan: the Life of Robert Lowell and states "If Lowell as historian was our Gibbon and our younger Pound, he was also our wild Shelley, and Hart Crane, and -- at the last--our Lear: grizzled, fallen, and -- in that wounded state -- most noble and most heartbreaking
Well done, Blogosphere Investor's Business Daily Headline yesterday "Campaign for Campaign Finance Reform was a Fraud." With enough blog buzz, the truth finally enters the MSM, and the job is done. See prior postings on Pewgate. Don't wait for the NYT, tho. They're still waiting for the triumph of international socialism, via the UN, or whatever their dream is. Anti-missile systems on commercial jets Am I in denial because I am not afraid? Maybe it's Bush that makes me comfortable these days...."While there can be no doubt that portable SAMs represent a very real threat to civilian aircraft and that the cited solutions would all be more or less effective counters, JREW believes that the current drive towards wide-scale use of such equipment may falter in the face of cost and infrastructure considerations." Click here: Executive Overview: Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems The Pope's Tube "Pope getting nutrition from tube in nose." Here we go again? I think not. He has been a wonderful Pope. Click here: My Way News Starvation Can't believe I lost the link, but I somehow did. About how Nazi war criminals were convicted of the war crime of starving prisoners in the concentration camps. Starvation was the main cause of death in the camps. Guess it's OK to do now? What am I missing? Terroir A very funny and pointed discussion of wine and wine snobbery - Caleefornia vs. Islamic Republic of France. Caleefornia apparently ain't got no terroir: Click here: Reason: Critique of Pure Riesling: Wine snobbery in the age of globalization Harvard Can you say "schadenfreude" ? "For the second straight year, New York University (NYU) topped Harvard as the number one “dream college,” according to the Princeton Review’s annual “College Hopes & Worries Survey,” released on Wednesday. " Click here: The Harvard Crimson Online :: News But why not...NYC is the best. Cambridge is podunk.
Wednesday, March 30. 2005
Internet and the UN How would you like the UN to regulate and control the internet? "....The ITU, a United Nations agency, would like to change that. "The whole world is looking for a better solution for Internet governance, unwilling to maintain the current situation,..." What is wrong with "the current situation"? That it isn't "regulated" by an international body? It seems to be fairly wonderful now, and I would hate to see the great UN "improve" things. Thanks, Instapundit. Read piece: Click here: The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Amazon.com: Books: Hedge Fund Mistress. Yes, that's right . The "Barbarians" are back. Check out the latest in the world of Big money. Must be a reason all of these books have titles like Liar's Poker, The Predators Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, and Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle.
Deception and Self-Deception Robert Samuelson: "We are a nation of closet welfare junkies, which helps explain why we can't have an honest debate about Social Security. Social Security and Medicare are our biggest welfare programs, but because Americans regard "welfare" as shameful, we've found other labels for them. We call them "social insurance" or "entitlements." Anything but welfare. Democrats and Republicans alike embrace the deception. No one wants to upset older voters. Well, if you can't call something by its real name, you can't discuss it honestly." Read entire: Click here: Welfare Junkies (washingtonpost.com)
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