Friday, December 10, 2004

What is Conservatism?

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I recently became aware of this article by Philip Agre . It is one of the most interesting and descriptive I have read on the nature of cons...
Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Medical Ethics Failures at Abu Ghraib Prison

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Dr. Steven Miles, Professor of Medicine and Ethics at the University of Minnesota, appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal this morning (...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004

The Cost of War

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not f...
Tuesday, June 08, 2004

G-8 Conference Security

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During past G-8 Summit Meetings, there has been no lack of effort to disrupt the proceedings by those in opposition to them. For this rou...
Sunday, May 02, 2004

Good News From Iraq

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According to news service reports, Thomas Hamill, the former Mississippi dairy farmer who was kidnapped by Iraqui insurgents, has escaped hi...
Tuesday, April 06, 2004

More About Elaine Chao

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Take a look at this interesting article by Laura Flanders that sheds a little more light on the background of Elaine Chao, who may be more t...
Thursday, March 25, 2004

Why Do They Hate Us?

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In his remarks this morning in the Senate, Mitch McConnell stated gravely, “These terrorists don’t hate us because of our policies; they hat...
Saturday, March 20, 2004

Good News and Bad News

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Howard Dean's organization is now operating from a new website, called Democracy for America . Check it out. Also, I have a friend wh...
Saturday, February 28, 2004

Paying the Terrorists to Shoot at Us?

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Excerpt from a Reuters report today: The informant who helped lead the U.S. military to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's two sons...
Thursday, February 26, 2004

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"Talk to your kids--they'll listen." This is just about all the advice the folks in charge seem to have for us these days reg...
Saturday, February 14, 2004

Another Sermon on the Mount

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As is often the case for me, I somehow manage to get behind in my newspaper reading. I am envious of those who claim to run through several ...
Friday, January 30, 2004

Editorial License at the Washington Times

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Wesley Pruden might benefit from taking a refresher course in accurate reporting. If it were left to me, I’d just rap his knuckles with a r...
Sunday, January 18, 2004

Aftermath

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"And when the towers did come down, they brought with them 400,000 tons of structural steel, 208 passenger elevators, 46,600 windows, 2...
Monday, January 12, 2004

George Soros Speaks for Himself

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George Soros, the wealthy investor, has been criticized for his financial support of MoveOn.org, and other "liberal" causes. Now, ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Why Outsourcing of Jobs Is Really Good For Us

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According to this article , we've all been worrying way too much about American jobs being shipped overseas. Even InstaPundit has conce...
Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Perseverance

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" First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi CLICK TODAY'S AR...
Thursday, December 25, 2003

At Christmas

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On this beautiful Christmas day, let us all nurture hope for the safety of our sons and daughters as they serve their country. Let us als...
Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Will the Real State-Run Media Please Step Forward?

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Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News program this evening alluded once again to the idea that National Public Radio and Public Television are s...
Friday, December 19, 2003

Huffy Pedals It’s Way to the Global Marketplace

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Most of us would probably not consider $11 an hour to be an excessively high wage for factory workers who assemble bicycles. In fact, for m...
Tuesday, December 16, 2003

A Letter to the Editor

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While reading the comments to a post by South Knox Bubba , I came across a reference to a letter to the editor in the Atlanta Journal Consti...
Monday, December 15, 2003

Arabs Decry Saddam's Immigration Policy

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I came across this article today in Al Hayat . The writer sheds some light on how Saddam's capture is viewed by many in the Arab world. ...
Friday, December 12, 2003

The Era of the $10,000 a Year Executive?

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If the Bush administration has its way, many skilled American workers will discover that they are “professionals” for the first time in thei...
Thursday, December 11, 2003

Neoconservative Defined

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Recently I came across a Washington Post article from earlier this year by Dan Morgan which I believe contains an excellent definition for t...
Monday, December 08, 2003

It’s Enough to Make a Preacher Cuss

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Senator John Kerry shook things up a bit this week with a comment he made in his interview with Rolling Stone magazine. For those unaware o...
Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Cheap Help Wanted (No Terrorists, Please)

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Asa Hutchinson, Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security, of the Department of Homeland Security, was a guest on CSPAN this mor...
Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Phrase of the Day

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New definition: Forest Thinning Program (reduces fuel for uncontrolled forest fires) Old definition: Logging CLICK TODAY'S ARTICLE T...
Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Don’t Burn Your AARP Card Yet

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I don’t recall being consulted by the AARP on the recent change in federal health policy for our senior citizens. It could be because I’m n...
Sunday, November 23, 2003

The London Sunday Mirror: Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid

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After reading this story in the London Sunday Mirror , it becomes much clearer to me why the Queen wasn't all smiles during Mr. Bush...
Thursday, November 20, 2003

Thank God Pat Buchanan Wasn't Running in Smyrna

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Here's an interesting little article about a small-town election gone wrong . It points up some of the concern about the foibles of elec...
Wednesday, November 19, 2003

With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

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This morning, President Bush delivered a variant of his now familiar speech #39 in London before a hand-picked crowd at Whtehall. He did no...
Monday, November 17, 2003

Rush Limbaugh’s Audience On Trial—Day Number One

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Rush Limbaugh is finally back on the air after completing the initial phase of his treatment for addiction to pain medications. There is a ...
Friday, November 14, 2003

Belated Thoughts On Veteran's Day

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I was unable to post any comment this past Tuesday regarding Veteran's Day. So, better late than never, I offer my appreciation for the...
Thursday, November 13, 2003

Rush Is On His Way Back

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It was announced today that Rush Limbaugh has completed the first phase of his rehabilitation and will soon return to hosting his radio prog...
Sunday, November 09, 2003

Phrase of the Day

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"Jobless Recovery" -- An economic term that has come into popular use in the U.S. It refers to profitability gains for American ...

Just a Few Thoughts for Today

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As I write this, I’m sitting here watching Tony Snow on state-run television. It seems that “time is running out for the Iraqui governing c...
Tuesday, November 04, 2003

Poor Laura

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Laura Ingraham appeared this evening with Bill O'Reilly on state-run television. As usual, she ranted and railed about the "elites...

Are Republicans Finally On Their Own?

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The Bush administration in particular and Republicans in general may have finally turned the corner. It appears they now own the economy lo...
Monday, November 03, 2003

Linda Tripp Wins Privacy Lawsuit Against Clinton Administration

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Linda Tripp Gets $595,000 from U.S. in Privacy Suit Wouldn't it be nice if she would share some of that money with Monica Lewinsky? ...
Saturday, November 01, 2003

Are We Paying the Terrorists to Shoot at Us?

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This afternoon I was talking to one of my neighbors, a 17 year-old high school student, when he asked me if it was possible that any of the ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2003

CIA Leak May Violate Patriot Act

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Talk about unintended consequences ..... CLICK TODAY'S ARTICLE TITLE FOR THE NEW LINKS PAGE

Which Came First, the Chicken Hawk or the Egghead?

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This week Paul Wolfowitz, one of the Bush administration’s most vocal and fervent proponents of preemptive war, probably came as close to co...
Monday, October 27, 2003

Is it Just Me, Or is it Stupid in Here?

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This evening, Bill O’Reilly proudly reported on his Fox News program, The O’Reilly Factor, the results of an internet poll of his audience. ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Back From the Northern Territories

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I have just returned from a short visit to New England, which I probably should remind some in these parts is not located in “Old Europe”. ...
Thursday, October 16, 2003

Playing for Time With Thiry-Nine

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Today President Bush gave another televised speech—this one in California in an appearance with Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger. The t...
Wednesday, October 15, 2003

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Many thanks to South Knox Bubba for the kind words and inclusion in the RTB.
Monday, October 13, 2003

Say It Isn't So, Rush

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On the street they say payback’s a bitch. In the light of his recent troubles with addiction to and alleged illegal trafficking in pain med...
Friday, October 10, 2003

Krauthammer Explains Saddam's Real WMD Plans

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Weapons of Mass Destruction, take two..or three..or, what the heck--plug in a number. In true Neo-Con style, Charles Krauthammer continue...
Thursday, October 09, 2003

For Yasser Arafat, Is the End of the Road Near?

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“Kill the chief! The others will lose the will to fight and will run away.” When I was a kid, I heard that in a lot of the action films ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Another Expert Weighs in on Outsourcing

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Lester Thurow, Professor of Economics in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, appeared on CSPAN’s Wa...
Monday, October 06, 2003

NEW LINKS PAGE

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Saturday, October 04, 2003

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Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, was a guest on this morning’s CSPAN program, Washington Journal. The discussion, ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2003

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Outsourcing has become the love object of American business, an affair that has been going on for quite a few years now. And why not? Why ...
Monday, September 29, 2003

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Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) appeared briefly on CNN today to discuss the idea of anti-missle defense technology for commercial airliners....
Sunday, September 28, 2003

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It's a beautiful fall afternoon here in east Tennessee. Right now, at this time and place, it is hard to think anything but good and pl...
Saturday, September 27, 2003

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One of this morning’s guests on CSPAN’s Washington Journal was Casey Lartigue of the Cato Institute; the subject under discussion was school...
Friday, September 26, 2003

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Oops! Here's an update on the national do-not-call list ball game. Another federal judge, this one in Denver, has now set Congress ba...

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Congress took a decisive step yesterday to get the national do-not-call list back on track. Its implementation on October 1 would have been...