John Moore | November 15, 2003
The Weekly Standard obtained a classified pentagon memo providing 50 items of detailed intelligence information showing that Saddam had cooperated with and supported Al Qaeda since 1990.
Iraq provided funding, training on bomb making from Iraq Intelligence’s principal technical expert on sophisticated explosives, training on letter bombs and pressure detonated aircraft bombs, training in passport [...]
John Moore | November 14, 2003
The Daily Ablution has tracked down more recent quotes from a quotes of Saddam’s Useful Fools who tried to be “human shields.” It seems that at at least these two still have the capability to respond to actual facts.
His comments section attracted some current useless fools, you know, the kind you see smugly marching [...]
John Moore | November 13, 2003
Reuters breathlessly reports:
The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War,
This statistic has no meaning. It is an attempt to draw a parallel where one doesn’t exit; to create a link between the terrible and controversial experience of Vietnam and the [...]
John Moore | November 9, 2003
So far, we have been “walking softly” in Iraq, seeking to gain the support of the population. But some areas have proven, not surprisingly, essentially hostile. Thes are in the “Sunni triangle,” populated by many people who have lost their unfair advantages in Iraqi society and want them back. These people have Sunni religious and [...]
John Moore | November 8, 2003
Har Har…. Dean is rejecting federal funds because he doesn’t want to fall under that campaign finance laws! So much for the “principled” stand of the Democrats and their RINO buddy John McCain!
The main purpose of campaign finance laws is incumbent protection! Otherwise they would never have passed. A horrible side effect is to remove [...]
John Moore | November 8, 2003
A woman in the United States has a “right” to an abortion late in the pregnancy by asserting that having the child will harm her health. Usually, this is simply a ruse where the proposed “harm” is to her mental health. But it’s the law, as handed down by our betters at the Supreme Court.
The [...]
John Moore | November 8, 2003
I originally posted this to Samizdata, a Libertarian blog that is one of my favorite. Thus it is posted from a libertarian perspective, even though I am a conservative.
The crucial points are that there is no way to reason about abortion without invoking moral judgements, and that there are the rights of four different stakeholders [...]
John Moore | November 8, 2003
I can’t take credit for this. It’s circulating the internet. But since I didn’t find it in Google, here it is for your enjoyment:
News anchor Dan Rather, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, NPR reporter Cokie Roberts, and an American Marine were hiking through the jungle one day when they were captured by cannibals. They were [...]
John Moore | November 3, 2003
Not satisfied with having taken over or obstructed much of the legislative function of government, the Supreme Court is now taking over part of the executive function! It is arrogating to itself decisions regarding foreign policy.
According to Justice O’Connor:
“The impressions we create in this world are important, and they can leave their mark,”
and
In [...]