Who are the Real Civil Libertarians? II
ArchPundit
Okay, the cross burning issue is important, but not as dangerous as Mike Hawash’s case. TalkLeft has the details of this and this case is chilling in the amount of power it gives the government.
April 2003
Organizations Win Championships
And hopefully the Bulls organization can move on from this twit.
While I hope he doesn’t have a serious medical condition, my guess is that Reinsdorf got tired of Jerry Krause. Now perhaps, Bill Cartwright can be a real coach and bench some lazy butts.
I’ll Go One Farther
Kevin Drum is setting his standard for the war as swimming pools of anthrax. As I mentioned previously, I could care less about most chemical and biological weapons. The level of danger simply isn’t that great and other regimes were more likely to supply them to terrorists.
The exception being smallpox. If we don’t turn up evidence of a nuclear program and/or smallpox, this war was pointless. Nukes are the only real WMD and if he didn’t have an active program (and I believe he did), containment would have worked just fine, thank you.
Who are the Real Civil Libertarians?
The Supreme Court just upheld a ban on cross burning .
This seems to me to be a bad precedent for symbolic speech and for freedom of religion.
Speaking The Truth
My peverse attraction to underdogs surely comes from their ability to pretty much say what they think and Howard Dean doesn’t let me down in BusinessWeek when he argues that further tax cuts are really stupid.
A Moment of Silence and a Prayer
?…And so let freedom ring, from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when we allow freedom to ring ? when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God?s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.?
I visited Stone Mountain for the first time about 10 years after that speech. It made the man alive.
Of course, I still have dreams of blasting his face into the face of the mountain….
Mighty Smooth Senator Kerry
And DeLay fell right into it. It is bloody obvious the speech was ready before anyone even bothered to criticize Kerry.
Tom DeLay, hear me loud and clear: I speak out for America, not for politics, and as long as I have air in my lungs I will continue to speak my mind …
And I say to Tom DeLay, one thing I know about America is that in the face of war there are things more important than cutting taxes and it is wrong to reward the wealthiest Americans before we fulfill our solemn obligations to those that have served.
Appeal Bond Change Dies
Lisa Madigan apparently picked apart the bill in committee and it will die. The issue is the state is now being used as leverage in the negotiations. As such changing the rules is not really fair to the litigants.
Appeal Bond Change Dies
Lisa Madigan apparently picked apart the bill in committee and it will die. The issue is the state is now being used as leverage in the negotiations. As such changing the rules is not really fair to the litigants.
In the Not Often Heard Here Category
Henry Hyde is doing good things to fight AIDs in Africa.
Snarky comments about his past use of condoms won’t be found here…for a day or two.