Letters Update
I’ve updated the advocacy and comment letters section to add three recent letters sent out via Americans for Tax Reform regarding Amtrak and the ACLU on Total Information Awareness: ACLU on Total Information Awareness:...
Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
Grover Norquist Takes on Religious Bigotry
I came away from this Washington Post piece with a renewed respect for Grover Norquist: Conservative activist Grover Norquist says the American Conservative Union must take tougher action and ban a Florida vendor —...
New Blog Option
For those readers not yet blogging, you now have a new option. Tripod will now be supporting weblogs via their own application Tripod Blog Builder. I ain't saying it's good or bad. It's just...
We should do something!
Jim Henley on those lying bastards: I have two letters in my in-box that I've been meaning to get to. Both say, in similar words, "But we have to do something. What's your alternative?"...
Reading Bad, TV Good
Jane Ehrenfeld, in Teacher Magazine (disclosure alert: my wife has written for this rag in the past) on Hide Your Books: "To Ms. Ehrenfeld: This morning I observed that during the morning news program,...
Semper Fi, Pepe
Sunni Maravillosa on Semper Fi, Pepe: I recently learned that one of my brothers-in-law, who spent his first summer after completing high school going through basic training for the Marine Reserves, has been called...
Pena on War with Iraq
Charles Pena, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute on The Road to War: A year ago, Bush said: "By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes [the "axis of evil" —...