Random Observations about...
October 2005

Progressives are Fascists

Thought for today: "Progressives" are facists. It was rather suprising when I realized this. Consider: Economic control: Someone, I forgot...

North Korean Atrocities

And yet some see... America... as the worst country on the planet??? These people -- and they are not uncommon,...

Carl Officer's Democratic East St. Louis Toodle-oo

East St. Louis alternates between hilarity and tragedy. When I younger, a judge ruled found in favor of a claim...

Hypocrisy vs. Hypocrisy

Keith Burgess-Jackson: Hypocrisy, n. 1. The assumption or postulation of moral standards to which one’s own behavior does not conform;...

Bud Pong: Despicable

Look, I understand college students will often try to drink each other into oblivion, and that's life. But for a...

Good and Evil and Not Opposites

... well, not in the way most people think. There's this prevailing belief that good and evil are somehow polar...

Is Atheism a Religion?

Via John Ray and Lost Tooth Society, we get this: James Kaufman, a Wisconsin prison inmate sought permission for an...

Deflating the Che Myth

Leftist historian Hugh Thomas: "In all essentials Castro's battle for Cuba was a public relations campaign, fought in New York...

The Beautiful Trick of the Left

The beautiful trick of the left is that they get people to support policies which are the exact opposite of...

Rationality and Controlling People

If you're going to wreak some serious harm on the world one of the more important things you'll need to...

The Bill Bennett Flap

There are many sad and deplorable aspects of the current controversy, not the least being the dishonesty of so many...

Sodium-Free Anglicans

Seems like I'm stumbling over news about the Anglican chuch each time I turn around. Now it's a short comment...

Judith Miller and the Plame Affair

I've been watching this affair since it was in it's infancy, and "knew" immediately that the reason the Times and...

Motives and the Iraq War

In a comment at the end of this discussion, "NDB" highlights a distinction I made: Do we honestly think that...

My View of the Iraq War

I have written this down here for posterity, so I can reference it without re-typing it each time... Saddam has...

Anglican Liespeak

It's fascinating to watch the political (and religious) left at work -- somewhat in the same way that storms are...

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