Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
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" —...
January 18, 2003 Photos
I’ve added a new photo album with photos from the January 18, 2003 Veterans for Peace contingent of the recent march. They’re not the best quality, but that’s what I get for leaving the...
New Issue of TAE
The February/March 2003 edition of The Abolitionist Examiner is finally live. The current abolitionists are: Civil Rights, Libertarianism and Reclaiming the Dream by W. James Antle III Is Diversity Good? by Harry V. Jaffa...
What Poetry Form Are You?
Via a link from Jim Henley: I am heroic couplets; most precise And fond of order. Planned and structured. Nice. I know, of course, just what I want; I know, As well, what I...
Poets pose political problem
From Wendy McElroy: Poets pose political problem — possibly pacifist!! Translation: poets *forced* POTUS-spouse Laura, to scrap a planned poetry reading at the White House for fear it would become an antiwar event. It...