John Moore | July 30, 2009
For a long time, educators and others thought a big problem with our children was their lack of self esteem. So they prescribed all sorts of nostrums, so the kids would love themselves. It worked, producing hoards of selfish, narcissistic individuals.
There is no better example of this than Barack Obama. Here we have a man, [...]
John Moore | May 5, 2004
People from Roger Simon’s blog and commenters community liked the following piece, which first appeared there as a comment, and it was suggested that I post it here. The piece was written in a stream-of-consciousness effort, with no time for editing or review, and I was shocked to find the number of spelling errors. [...]
John Moore | April 13, 2004
Bruce Schneier, in the following article argues that a national ID card system would not make us safer and in fact would be worse than useless.
Schneier is a very smart guy and a well respected practitioner in cryptography, but his arguments too often seem tainted by a bias towards privacy and against security concerns. Personally, [...]
John Moore | February 13, 2004
A friend of mine, who is tired of the economic illiteracyand demoguery on the “Haliburton” issue comments:
If Haliburton isn’t making a good profit, the the school teachers should demand their money back!
His point: Haliburton, like most evil capitalist running-dog imperialist-helper worker-oppressing environment-destroying corporations is owned largely by retirement accounts, with teachers holding some of the [...]
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 | October 22, 2003
Much talk and a few judicial rulings have been made about the impact of the first amendment on the Do Not Call law. Even Edward at Zonitics gets it wrong this time! [NOTE: 10/28 Edward is rendering his opinion of how the court will rule, not his personal views. Hence my characterization of his article [...]
John Moore | October 5, 2003
For those who complain and demand government intervention when the marketplace doesn’t produce what they want:
Thanks an a tip of the hat to Vox, whom I hope gets better soon!
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.
John Moore | August 6, 2003