Mar
31
Terry Schiavo has died
March 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
From From CNN
Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the centerpiece of a national right-to-die battle, died Thursday morning, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade.
May God bless her. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
Mar
30
Traitor!
March 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
If Dave Brooks spent the rest of his time on Earth defending big government conservatism, I do not believe I would be as irate at him as I am for this travesty of a column. It seems Brooks is contemplating switching his baseball allegiance from the Mets to the Nationals.
As a relatively new DC [...]
Mar
30
Never Again: Again and Again
March 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
This is the latest from the Coalition for Darfur.
Please note, by the way, that this site contains more than just these weekly updates. There is so much information about the tragic evnts unfolding in the region, and I encourage all of you, if you have not been doing so, to read this blog regularly.
In [...]
Mar
29
Of opinion polls and populism
March 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is nothing more annoying than hearing the words, “An ABC poll indicates . . .” As soon as I hear about some new fangled poll my eyes roll back into my head as I am evidently supposed to take this latest survey as Gospel truth of where Americans stand on some particular issue. [...]
Mar
23
Humanitarian Workers at Risk
March 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The latest from the Coalition for Darfur.
Last week, the United Nations was forced to withdraw its staff from parts of western Sudan after the Janjaweed militia declared that it would begin targeting foreigners and U.N. humanitarian convoys.
Yesterday, a 26 year-old USAID worker was shot in the face when theclearly-marked humanitarian convoy she was traveling in [...]
Mar
21
MNR
March 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Last Friday I was reading the DC Examiner and came across the story of William Karanja, a man sentenced to 66 years in prison after being convicted of raping two teenagers and attempting to infect them with HIV. His ever-so compassionate attorney had this to say:
“Mr. Karanja is a hardworking 34-year-old who has been [...]
Mar
18
Barbara Boxer: Intellectual Powerhouse
March 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Power Line points out these words of wisdom spoken by Senator Boxer.
Why would we give lifetime appointments to people who earn up to $200,000 a year, with absolutely a great retirement system, and all the things all Americans wish for, with absolutely no check and balance except that one confirmation vote. So we’re saying we [...]
Mar
17
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A little temporary change in the background to celebrate this glorious day. Unfortunately for me, since I am neither:a)Currently drinking,b)Living in a city (ie. New York, Boston, Chicago, or Savannah) that has any meaningful celebration,or c)Irish,this day shall not be as entertaining as in years past (think rolling around on rooftops). But I [...]
Mar
16
The Unknown Death Toll
March 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Here is the latest from the Coalition For Darfur.
Many seemed surprised when UN Under-Secretary-General for HumanitarianAffairs Jan Egeland recently updated the estimated death toll in Darfur upwards from 70,000 to 180,000. Egeland estimates that 10,000 people have died, and continue to die, per month since the start of the genocide 18 months ago. He also [...]
Mar
16
good news…bad news
March 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Bush will announce that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is his choice to be president of the World Bank, a senior administration told CNN Wednesday.
At least he’s leaving DoD…of course such a divisive selection will test the success of W’s uhhhh “fence mending” efforts
Mar
15
Gerry Adams: Head of vile organization AND spoiled brat
March 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Gerry Adams is still tending to his bruised ego after the White House did the right thing this year and snubbed Adams for this year’s White House St. Patrick’s Day festivities. Of course Mr. Adams had a stinging rebuke for the President.
“Bill Clinton ran a better gig,” he said in a speech in New York.
Oooh, [...]
Mar
14
MNR
March 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Sleep is overrated, don’t you think?
Well then, so are the Yankees. Okay, so maybe they have some freakish forty-year old ten foot monster on the mound, but you just know that at the end of the season, after they’ve won like 110 games, they’ll still falter when they have to rely on the recently [...]
Mar
11
The Party of Hell
March 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Pop quiz hotshot: Name the terrorist organization that, until 9/11, had killed more US Citizens than any other?
The answer is Hezbollah, the so-called party of God. Just in case anybody had forgotten about them, they woke everyone up earlier this week by staging a massive pro-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon that possibly derailed [...]
Mar
11
News Flash: Appeasement Still Does Not Work
March 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment
One year ago today, radical Islamists coordinated ten powerful explosions on four commuter trains just outside of Madrid, Spain. The explosions killed 191 people and injured hundreds more. This act of terrorism was timed to have an impact on Spain’s parliamentary elections, which were only a few days away. The Basque separatists responsible for the [...]
Mar
11
a random sampling
March 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment
…of why we should fight them with our last breath
March 11, 2005 EDITORIAL (NYT)
They’re Back, and Still Unworthy
he Senate is preparing for a major showdown over the Democrats’ use of the filibuster to block a handful of President Bush’s judicial nominees. When the arguments about procedures are over, the key question will remain: Has Mr. [...]
Mar
10
Don’t forget the IRA
March 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment
In our fight against terrorism, it seems we have lost sight of a terrorist organization that has been in operation for several decades: the IRA. Recent developments in Britain have reminded us just how dangerous and lethal this outfit remains, and it seems the time has arrived to clamp down on their activities.
The murder [...]
Mar
9
Liberalism Defended
March 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Publius over at Legal Fiction has again beat me to the punch with a post entitled “In Defense of Liberalism”(scroll down to the second post), which I encourage all to read. While I don’t agree 100% with everything that Publius asserts, he does a very good job of utilizing classical liberal thinkers to establish and [...]
Mar
9
Do Something About Darfur
March 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment
This is the first in a series of weekly posts sent to all members of the Coalition for Darfur.
In May 2004, Roger Winter, the Assistant Administrator for the U.S.Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflictand Humanitarian Assistance, told a Housecommittee that it was inevitable that “more than 100,000 people willdie no matter what” in [...]
Mar
7
MNR
March 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,
“By the same power that slays you, I to am slain; and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.
Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that [...]
Mar
7
Communist Slander, Italian Style
March 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
On Friday, a car carrying released abductee Giuliana Sgrena came under fire by U.S. troops stationed at a Baghdad highway checkpoint. Sgrena was wounded, and the Italian security agent who was transporting her was killed, when their car was shot at after it did not heed warnings issued by the checkpoint troops.
It is an unfortunate [...]