Putting theives out of business? Low priority: I farm on the north Norfolk coast and recently had some agricultural machinery...
I was visiting a friend on New Years' Eve last year, and one of his sons looked up at me,...
Since France, protecting it's colonial investments, invaded Ivory Coast, it's only fair that the citizens of Ivory Coast should invade...
The Australian: Despite attempts by the French Defence Ministry to block the case, Jacques Baillet, the prosecutor at the army...
A realization: Laws without sufficient penalty or enforcement are harmful. Because laws, alone, only influence good people. For example, if...
One of the things which has always bothered me about the bible is the way in which Jesus, after the...
One of the prime reasons I've been opposed to capital punishment -- at least under the current system -- was...
While the guy sounds like he's a nice guy in person, there are several things in this essay (via James...
I keep hearing, from the left, quotes like "Halliburton's making a lot of money from this war." Really? Then why...
With the Tookie Williams execution, the media have been abuzz with the debate over capital punishment. For me, the effect...
Last year, about this time: A cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that...
Well, whaddya know? NPR has a right-wing bias. How can we be sure? Because NPR tells us so. (You know,...
Just a trend I noticed recently... First, there's "Calling All Angels" by Train. Excerpts: I need a sign To let...
Polly Toynbee, ranting in The Guardian about the many sins of Narnia: Children are supposed to fall in love with...
This seems oddly appropriate after driving so much (well, not that much, but the car was so cold it seemed...
Comments like this one (posted here) are so sad: I just wanted to share my personal experience with Quixstar. My...
I mean, I just don't get it. Why does he do stuff like this: 3. Chomsky claimed that Egypt offered...
These save, I imagine, the nuisance involved in restraining and transporting the prisoner, alive, to a place where they might...
One interesting find: The small ceramic shard unearthed at Tell es-Safi -- the site of the biblical city "Gath of...