Month: May 2007

In an editorial titled “No special rights for Muslim students,” the Examiner questions why George Mason University and other schools are providing religious accommodations for Muslim students which are not being provided Christian or Jewish groups. As Mark Tapscott pointed out in the email, GMU’s decision is especially puzzling because the school has a bit…

Here is some incidental music to keep you entertained while you read the following: The Kyoto Protocols are playing havoc with the European economy. Carbon trading is the EU’s principal strategy for meeting its Kyoto target of reducing CO2 emissions by 8% by 2012. The scheme was launched two years ago in the hope that…

I visited my mother’s grave earlier today, and I normally wouldn’t have written about it, but Ann Althouse’s post (via Glenn Reynolds) reminded me that there’s really no harm in sharing these things. Anyway, this was the best I could do for my mother on Mother’s Day: Nearby is a beautiful statue (with arms missing)…

When I take a day off from blogging, it’s much harder to return to it. Taking a day off makes me want to take a week off, and taking a week off makes me want to take two weeks off. So it’s better for me to never, ever, take a break from blogging. Because of…

Here is an interesting piece at the Huffington Post by my friend Ali Eteraz explaining that Chompsky is not expressing sufficient dissent and then going through a catalog of Muslim ills. I just read that in Kurdistan a Yezidi girl was stoned to death with bricks to her head because she loved a Sunni boy;…

Long drive today. Blogging will be light. I’m wondering though…. There’s an “actress” named Marguerite Perrin, who starred in a reality show. (Yeah, she has a Wiki entry, and a web page.) I stumbled onto her on YouTube last night, and my reaction was that she had to be insane, that I should feel sorry…

Yesterday’s post about Philadelphia mayoral candidate Michael Nutter left me with the feeling that articulating libertarian views in a large urban area is largely an effort in futility, because ideas like the constitutional right to bear arms are considered fringe. (For that matter, so is the idea that you have a right to live with…

Reliapundit left a comment at my blog about this story which I think covers my theory of why we are seeing a big push for global warming taxes. [Emphasis added] the political schmucks running agw crowd are NOT dumb. they KNOW we are near the end of this warming cycle, and that’s EXACTLY why they…

You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin’ — from Nancy Sinatra’s famous song about Truther Consequences While I don’t blog about them all that often, I always enjoy reading about the 9/11 Truthers — a recent example being the man John Edwards took seriously enough that he made an apparent campaign promise to he’d…

There is a petition started on 20 Nov 2006 calling for Congress to support the Bussard Fusion Reactor. The short version: Dr. Bussard has a Navy contract that is unfunded. Also please write your Government to urge them to fund the Navy contract: House of Representatives The Senate The President Dr Bussard was on The…

In addition to receiving the endorsement of the Philadelphia Inquirer in Philadelphia’s mayoral election (more infra), Councilman Michael Nutter has garnered the endorsement of the city’s two left-wing weeklies — the Philadelphia City Paper and Philadelphia Weekly. That Nutter’s statist views are anathema to libertarians seems to a plus among his fellow leftists, with the…

Well, that was Andrew Sullivan’s question about guns, and I tried to come up with a few theoretical answers yesterday while trying to be funny. What happened to a 31 year old Minnesota college student, while not funny, has provided an answer from the real-life world (as opposed to the often theoretically argumentative life of…

Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. The government of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho has passed a gun control law, and (unless I am mistaken) Cramer seems to actually like the law.

Pajamas Media’s Roger L. Simon discusses the refusal of PBS to show a film which couldn’t be more relevant and timely — “Martyn Burke’s documentary “Islam vs. Islamism” (produced with Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev) which “was commissioned by PBS for its ‘American Crossroads’ series.” PBS, clearly, does not like what this movie says. And…

I’m intrigued by the story of these two Atlanta screwballs who killed their baby by starving him to death with a radical vegan diet. Now the child’s grandmother is afraid her son will starve to death in prison because of his veganism: Lamont Thomas’ mother fears he may soon die by staying true to his…

God. The crap I find myself finding. Anyway, I went over to Andrew Sullivan because I read at Instapundit that Andrew Sullivan thinks that “If gun rights are civil rights, why would anyone feel the need to hide the fact that they own one”? Well, gee… If being gay is a civil right, why would…

Isn’t it ironic to see that the Democrats are against democracy in Iraq? I have provided some ironic music to properly set the mood. For those Democrats and others who don’t wish to be so ironic there is the I Support Democracy In Iraq support group. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

Winds of Change is discussing a post by Ali Eteraz. His thesis is that we need to give up partisanship. That no political philosophy is better than another. Split the differences. Ali says: I cannot in clean conscience engage against religious supremacism and exclusion if I engage in ideological supremacism and exclusion. Sure you can.…

Speaking of the tension between fringe issues and big issues, I have steadfastly avoided writing about the election. No, not that election (the one over a year away); I’m talking about the Philadelphia Mayoral election — which effectively takes place next week, because the winner of the Democratic primary election will be the next Mayor:…

A tenured Professor is being fired for quoting George Washington. A tenured college professor is set to be fired for simply sending out an e-mail to colleagues containing George Washington’s “Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789.” Already professor Walter Kehowski at Glendale Community College in Arizona has been placed on forced administrative leave and the school’s…