Useful Fools

College Republicans have been engaging in guerrilla theater, dramatizing the unfairness of Affirmative Action by selling cookies at lower prices to favored groups:

Want to buy a cookie? If you are a white male, that’ll be $1; for white females, 75 cents; blacks, 25 cents. The price structure is the message.

The response by colleges and universities is usually to find an excuse to shut down these satirical acts of free political speech, and even to blame the Republicans for acts of violence and vandalism against them!

This is consistent with the elite view in 2003, during which the Supreme Court, following the whims of Sandra Day (Bull) O’Connor, has twice demonstrated its support for this attitude. First, it enshrined racism in its new disguise of Required Actions of Colleges In Support of Multiculturalism® (abbreviated RACISM). More recently it upheld the Campaign Finance “Reform” Act’s suppression of political speech.

At Fox (where else could this story be told?), Wendy McElroy tells the inspiring story of this latest civil rights trend, where young college students are being harassed and attacked by the modern Bull Conners who are still defending racial discrimination.

While the west has focused intently on the capture of Saddam Hussein, an ominous event in Pakistan went un-noticed: President Musharraf barely escaped an attempt on his life, the third in his four year rule.

The successful assassination of the president of this unstable, Islamic nuclear armed country of 160,000,000 people, including a large population of Jihadists, could have catastrophic results. While we celebrate the capture of the Butcher of Baghdad, we must remember that in Pakistan we are one heartbeat from chaos and possible nuclear war, or the control of nuclear weapons by Al Qaeda and its friends.

Fox News’ Brit Hume, while discussing the capture of Saddam Hussein (The Ace of Spades in the famous card deck), referred to him as

The Ace in the Hole

Yeah!

Meanwhile, Kuwaitis are having fun with this:

Kuwaitis, jubilant at the capture of arch-foe Saddam Hussein, were Sunday frantically sending each other mobile text messages of mock denials from former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad said as-Sahhaf [AKA Baghdad Bob].

Okay… here’s a contest… now that Saddam has been captured, we need a list of the Top Ten reasons Saddam should get the death penalty. These are joke reasons (the real reasons are obvious and not funny).

Here’s the list so far:

1. (RK) So the French can’t nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. (erikbert)To prevent him from playing golf in Florida with OJ
3. (Mark L) So Hillary Clinton won’t be able to trade a pardon for the [Saddam’s money] if she gets elected President.
4. (Kimberly)So that Mumia Abu Jamal can retain his status as the most treasured political prisoner of the left-wing moonbats.
5. (Dan Clark)Because the French are against it.
6. (Dodd) That beard!
7. (jcrue) Because an interview with Barbara Walters would be cruel and unusual punishment.
8. (Watcher) So we don’t have to listen to Larry King asking Saddam what his favorite color is.
9. (Ryan) It’s been a while since we had a good hangin’, and my hangin’ rope’s gettin’ dusty.
10. (Rob Bernard) Uday and Qusay are feeling lonely.
11. Because Allah needs more *virgins for newly arriving suicide bombers.
12. (K Beil)To keep the left busy with a new cospiracy theory: Bush used a double to fool us into thinking Saddam was captured and had to murder him to hide the evidence.

Finally, some sense is being written about The Patriot Act. Legal scholars Posner and Yoo write:

Civil libertarians would have us believe that the Patriot Act allows CIA and NSA agents to roam freely through the country detaining anyone they please. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Patriot Act represents a modest retrenchment from an overcautious interpretation of FISA, but nothing like the pre-1978 regime of warrantless searches.

In other words, before 1978, for the first 200 years of our republic, national security searches required no warrant. FISA instituted a reasonable requirement for warrants, and The Patriot Act modernizes those requirements.

They also comment that

Putting aside the hysterics, the worst thing about the Patriot Act is its Orwellian name.

Pointedly, they note

But some think that even a small restriction of civil liberties can never be justified. These people think that, as a mark of our commitment to freedom, courts should not allow the government to invade our civil liberties even during emergencies. The truth is the opposite. Civil liberties throughout our history have always expanded in peacetime and contracted during emergencies. During the Civil War, the two world wars, and the Cold War, Congress and the president restricted civil liberties, and courts deferred; during peacetime, civil liberties expanded.

And finally, they end with this chilling coda:

It took Pearl Harbor to shatter the complacency of the American public. We can only hope the absence of an al Qaeda attack on American soil during the last two years will not lull us back into our pre-Sept. 11 stupor.

[emphasis added]

CBS Evening News reported on the US’s rejection of anti-coalition countries as possible prime contractors in Iraqi reconstruction. This was obviously done by the administration as a powerful act of diplomacy, punishing those who obstructed our efforts and cost the lives of our soldiers and rewarding those who helped.

To CBS, this was a terrible deed. The report stated that it “unnecessarily offended” Germany, France and Russia.

Unnecessarily? Is this a news broadcast or an editorial? Obviously, it is the latter.

The report closed with “The war in Iraq was supposed to be about terror. Right now it is about money.”

Again, a vicious editorial judgement.

And remember, CBS has First Amendment rights that you and I don’t enjoy! They can say anything they want about the administration or its critics, with as much bias as they choose. But if we try to buy time to counter it, we may end up in jail, thanks to McCain-Feingold and the recent ruling on “Campaign Finance Reform” by the ImperialSupreme Court!

Whilethe public has been distracted by the enormous hyperbole focussed on The Patriot Act, the most dangerous attack on American democracy since the Civil War has been upheld by the ImperialSupreme Court: The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance “Reform”.

It is time to reign in that court, but those who would do so are those who benefit most from its actions! It is time for Arizonans such as myself to fight to replace Senator John McCain, the rather stupid (yes, Arizonans know that McCain is not the brightest bulb) pawn of the media and officeholder special interests. And, of course, it is a tremendous black mark on George Bush’s presidency that he failed to veto this law!

We are also once again ashamed that the swing vote on the court is another confused and arrogant Arizonan, Sandra Day O’Connor!
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Many a Miserable Failure on the left have been GoogleBombing to cause George Bush to show up at the top of a google search for Miserable Failure. This article is here simply to counter that silly approach with a different target.

I doubt it will work… the left tends to be far more determined with this sort of silly antic.

After Joe Lieberman stayed out of the running until Al Gore made it clear he was not in the race, Gore repayed the favor today by endorsing Dean. Gore didn’t even bother to call or email Lieberman first.

With this sort of personal betrayal given by Gore and accepted by Dean, how will these guys treat their country?

From New York Arts Magazine:

From the pages of the Spanish newspaper El Pais erupted a disturbing anecdote. Jose Milicua, a noted art-historian, uncovered evidence that “anarchist” forces used modern art to torture prisoners during the Spanish Civil War. Oh, the Horror! Art was misused in the Spanish Civil War! Sane people are more concerned with the real tragedies and atrocities, While it is true many metaphorically consider modern art to be torture, the idea that being forced to view modern art could be a signicant instrument of torture is laughably over-serious.

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