Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
230th Birthday Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps
10 November 2005 A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS On November 10th, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Continental Marines marking the birth of our...
VCS Calls for Independent Commission on Torture
Longtime readers know that I have been a member of Veterans for Common Sense for several years. Yesterday, I added a copy of their new press release and an open letter (which I signed...
What have you been reading, comrade?!
Barton Gellman of The Washington Post on The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny: In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans: The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked...
Getting Down to the Marrow
Patrick L. Barry and Dr. Tony Phillips, writing for N.A.S.A., on An Odd List of Body Parts – Researchers are making a list: Which parts of an astronaut are most sensitive to solar flares?...
Stop Making Collectivist Assumptions
A posting in the Libertarian Party forum at MySpace got me posting there again. The following was written in response to a typical pro-“racial” profiling advocate’s remarks here. As a libertarian, I fail to...
2000 Reasons to be Sad
If this doesn’t bother you – you are undoubtedly a neo-con, neo-libertarian apologist for Big Government Conservative Wars, or a worthless chickenhawk coward. Take your pick. {mos_sb_discuss:2}
Website Update and Weblog Change
Recently, I redesigned my website (https://jameslandrith.com) in order to upgrade my non-blog content from static html pages into a database driven portal (Mambo). Since that project is mostly done (still have a few folders...
Website Update and Weblog Change
Recently, I redesigned my website (https://jameslandrith.com/) in order to upgrade my non-blog content from static html pages into a database driven portal (Mambo). Since that project is mostly done (still have a few folders...
A Little More Time
Thomas Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education on The Man Who Would Murder Death: A rogue researcher challenges scientists to reverse human aging: Aubrey de Grey is indeed a prophet. The 42-year-old English...