Author: James Landrith
Domestic Spy Agency Coalition Letter
This is the final call for signatures on a broad-based coalition letter to President Bush opposing the creation (for the first time in American history) of a clandestine agency whose sole mission would be...
State Sponsored Patriotism
A California State Senator is once again trying to legislate patriotism: Students in California are currently required to participate in a daily "patriotic exercise," which may include a moment of silence. But that is...
Melting Pot Musings
Charley, over at Shut up Charley! had this to say on the topic of "multiracial" children and "interracial" marriage: There are of course doomsayers who speak in hushed tones about the dire consequences that...
Sad News in Nashville
Christian Bottorff reporting for The Tennessean on Boy's body found in Nashville park: A young boy was found dead yesterday morning in a west Nashville public park, face down on the back of a...
IAEA and Project Echelon?
Les Dabney has been on the receiving end of strange traffic from the International Atomic Energy Agency (chartered by the U.N.) as reflected by his referral logs. It appears from reading the comments to...
Privacy Villain of the Week
The National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Villain of the Week is Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY): Sen. Hillary Clinton told WABC radio this week that to combat the scourge of cheap lawn care by migrant wokers,...
Over Achiever
From the Opinion page in today's Baltimore Sun: PLENTY OF John Ashcroft's former Senate colleagues had misgivings when George W. Bush nominated him to be attorney general. They knew him to be more ideological...
Inflated Terrorism Conviction Statistics
Government Executive Magazine on Report: Justice managers fail to ensure accuracy of terrorism statistics: The Justice Department does not have sufficient oversight and policies in place to ensure the accuracy of its terrorism-related conviction...
Navy Corpsmen
Dennis O'Brien, reporting for the The Virginian-Pilot on Corpsmen can mean life or death for Marines: As the Marines of Amphibious Task Force East went ashore this week, each platoon took one member of...