John Moore | August 31, 2003
After having its blatantly racist admissions scheme ruled out by the Supreme Court, the University of Michigan has come up with a another way of discriminating by race. Applicants will be forced to write an essay responding to one of the following
(from The LA Times,free registration required):
At the University of Michigan, we are committed [...]
John Moore | August 31, 2003
A few days ago I noticed the press trumpeting the “fact” that more Americans had been killed in Iraq since the end of major combat than during the war. The obvious implication was that things are going quite badly and that Bush lied about the state of the war. In fact, sometimes it was reported [...]
John Moore | August 31, 2003
After this terrifying article by VodkaPundit, it is my duty to reveal the following information:
WARNING: Californians, DON’T MOVE TO ARIZONA unless you like the following:
We have lots of guns and allow open carry or licensed concealed carry.
We have plenty of conservatives.
We have the country’s largest nuclear power plant.
We allow and have plenty of evil-looking assault [...]
John Moore | August 29, 2003
We all knew that the California Governor recall race would provide some comedy, but who expected it to come from Lt. Gov. Gray Cruz Bustamonte? We thought that his primary claim to fame is his membership in the Mexican KKK.
But no… he’s deeper than we thought! Apparently wanting to out-do Gray Davis’ electrical blackouts, [...]
John Moore | August 29, 2003
Bill Gertz is one of my favorite national security reporters. Working for the conservative Washington Times, he has outstanding sources in the national security establishment.
Hence I was shocked to read an article by Gertz and Scarborough containing (emphasis added):
Israel has ready a plan to bomb Iran’s Bushehr nuclear-power plant should the Persian Gulf [...]
John Moore | August 28, 2003
Jon Ray points out that a big influence on political orientation is genetic (the Useful Fools gene, known to geneticists as Fool1):
There has been a recent claim that birth-order determines whether or not you are conservative or liberal. The evidence on birth-order effects has always shown them to be very slight however. The big influence [...]
John Moore | August 28, 2003
First we had the amazing pictures of US Special Forces operators charging into combat on the horseback, ready to direct high tech weapons from their low tech mounts.
Now we have an Israeli helicopter defeating a donkey cart!
“Modern” warfare is weird when you are fighting barbarians!
The good news: The Hamas terrorist monster on the donkey cart [...]
John Moore | August 28, 2003
So North Korea plans to test a nuke (probably on a national holiday on Sept. 9).
Well, if I were Osama, I’d want to verify that the merchandise worked. And plutonium-based nukes, which is what they probably have, are tricky to make, which is why the US had to test one before using it in WW-II.
Once [...]
John Moore | August 27, 2003
You wouldn’t know it from the domain name, but this blog has elevated flaming and fisking to a high art. The job is outstanding and well worth reading (unless you are the target, but if you are, you deserve to suffer).
The only comparison I can think of is chewings out by Navy Chief Petty [...]
John Moore | August 24, 2003
Sharp Knife gets it pretty much right about The Patriot Act in my humble opinion.
Which is to say that, apart from its inflammatory name, it is needed.