John Moore | December 16, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 14, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 14, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 14, 2003
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:
(RK) So the French can’t nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
(erikbert)To prevent him from [...]
John Moore | December 13, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 11, 2003
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. [...]
John Moore | December 11, 2003
Quoting Justice Thomas in his oustanding dissent…the Court today upholds what can only be described as the most significant abridgment of the freedoms of speech and association since the Civil War.…
John Moore | December 10, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 9, 2003
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 [...]
John Moore | December 8, 2003
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 [...]