Biometric Blues
NCPA on Biometrics May be Impractical: Biometrics — the statistical study of biological phenomenon such as the shape of your face, the minutiae of your fingertips, the bone structure of your hand or the...
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The Ghost of Gulf War Future
The Guardian on 'Gulf war syndrome' soldiers threaten legal action: Four soldiers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Defence after suffering symptoms similar to "Gulf war syndrome", their lawyer said today. The men...
More Friendly Neo-con Bashing
Karen Kwiatkowski on Neocons on the Outs?: We have seen them in action – chicken hawks who conveniently missed out on military service, who safely skipped the wars of their generations, and yet now...
The Myth of the Indispensable Chickenhawk
Bob Wallace on The Brain of the Chickenhawk: These men are deserving of nothing but contempt. They're cowards, all of them. They think they are so intellectually and morally superior to everyone else that...
Bank of Morality – Account Balance: $0.00
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Moral Responsiblity for Iraqi Graves: Given the failure of U.S. forces to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the newest justification for the...
Conservative Sandwiches
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists: Conservatives favor strict construction of the U.S. Constitution. How do we know? They never stop telling us so. But judging by what they...
Statist Interventionism To Continue
Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service on Neo-cons move quickly on Iran: Reports that top officials in the administration of President George W Bush will meet this week to discuss US policy toward Iran,...
Trading Liberty for Security
Paul Rosenzweig of The Heritage Foundation on Balancing liberty and security: …fears of a police state are overblown. We're merely witnessing a recurring pattern in American history. Professor Geoffrey Stone of the University of...
Memorial Day
Over the weekend, I witnessed the usual parade of bikers descending on the nation's capitol to pay their respects to those who've paid dearly in defense of freedom. The presence of so many men...