Month: December 2002

  • No Gore in '04

    It seems that Al Gore won’t run in ’04 after all, clearing the way for (the marginally better candidates) Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, and Lieberman. Either way, as long as the Dems fail to get their act together and find something to stand for, Bush’s re-election should be a shoe-in.Also, while advertising the upcoming speech…

  • Quoth one commie

    “We need [Moore’s] noisy, cocky energy, his passion and class consciousness; we need his shticks, we need his stones.” Anyone who wants more proof that Hollywood/media is commie heaven should note the 13 positive and 0 negative reviews on Michael Moore’s latest manifesto: Bowling for Columbine.

  • Oops!

    I overclocked my computer a few days ago, disabling its ability to reboot. Last night, it rebooted to apply an automatic update, but becuase of the overclock, it didn’t come back up, and after a few hours, Cox reset my IP address, causing the DNS entry to be erroneous. So, my website will be down…

  • Random clips from the news…

    Ted Turner on terrorism: “There’s a lot of despair out there. Despair and poverty… these breed anger. And, I think, that’s one of the reasons terrorism exists. There’s so much frustration, anger, and despair..In the Arab view, America doesn’t do enough to help them and that’s why they’re so angry at it,” he said. The…

  • Let's see if they can dig themselves out of this hole

    Gray Davis and the California democrats have done it again: California is on the edge of bankruptcy. Apparently all those “progressive” social programs couldn’t survive the recession. Personally, I’m glad. Those stupid democrats have dug themselves into this hole, and I hope they feel the pain on the way out. After all, CA is unionized…

  • The Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Prosperity Around The World

      Econometrics 463 Term Project: The Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Prosperity Around The World By David V. December 10, 2002 Introduction The collapse of the Soviet Union has been followed by worldwide economic liberalization and increasing international trade. The increase in economic freedom has been followed by a global increase in prosperity, but not…

  • Google, Censorship, and the Hostage Dilemma

      Google, Censorship, and the Hostage Dilemma David V. December 9, 2002 On September 8, 2002, the Chinese government blocked Google, one of the Internet’s biggest search engines. The government of China regularly blocks websites that it considers “dangerous” to its regime, but Google.com is a search engine – it only indexes the Internet without…

  • The anti-war protesters: what are they for?

    I’ve written a new essay: The anti-war protesters: what are they for? (shorter version:) “A recent incident at University of Texas is indicative of the nature of the pacifists opposing a war with Iraq. After the student government of the University of Texas passed a resolution condemning a U.S. attack on Iraq, the Young Conservatives…

  • The anti-war protesters: what are they for?

      A recent incident at University of Texas is indicative of the nature of the pacifists opposing a war with Iraq. After the student government of the University of Texas passed a resolution condemning a U.S. attack on Iraq, the Young Conservatives attempted to engage them in a debate with the “Campus Coalition for Peace…

  • Can you spot the difference?

    See if you can spot the difference between two following photos from MSNBC: ….this and this …I couldn’t. (A bit of context: both groups were protesting the same topic.)