Month: April 2003

  • Pelosi: White House Lawn Not Green Enough

    Oh please. The Democrats are getting so desperate for issues, they have to resort to claiming that they could have won the war for less, and demanding that Bush kowtow to the "international community." Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of either party: while the Republicans are politicking for who gets to rebuild Iraq…

  • Great Quotes in History

    MSNBC: Roh Moo Hyun, the new South Korea president, said Kim was threatening to develop nuclear weapons because he had "no other bargaining chips … Without this bargaining chip, Kim Jong Il does not have any other means of convincing his people that they are safe."Translation: without nukes, Kim has no means of convincing his…

  • Alexis de Tocqueville's interpetation of "self-interest rightly understood."

    I am writing a paper on Alexis de Tocqueville’s interpetation of “self-interest rightly understood.” I will post the link to it tonight, but meanwhile, here is food for thought: I do not think, on the whole, that there is more selfishness among us than in America; the only difference is that there it is enlightened,…

  • 'United Nations Holds 'Grand Re-Opening' Event'

    The New, Improved U.N: As Relevant As Ever (2003-04-09) — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today that the United Nations will hold a "grand re-opening" event later this month to "let the world know we’re still in business." Mr. Annan said that the unified global body is as relevant as ever, and looks forward to…

  • Herbert Hoover — defender or traitor of the "American System"?

    While reading Herbert Hoover’s 1934 book "The Challenge to Liberty," I discovered the groundwork of the political views held by both of the major parties today. Hoover was by no means the greedy capitalist that history professors bill him as, but rather offered the market system as a temporary excuse – because "for at least…

  • I warned you..

    DON’T CLICK THIS LINK

  • Inflation, voice over IP, and cross burning…

    The AP reports that the FED is in "uncharted territory" and is trying out "experimental moves" to stimulated the economy. How? Basically, by "lending massive amounts of money directly to commercial banks to make sure that financial markets do not freeze up." I’m not sure if the public is so clueless about economics that they…

  • British Forces suffer first major defeat…

    The British Marines experience their first major defeat in the war to liberate Iraq. Better luck next time guys. I thought they trained for this sort of thing. Also, here is a touching story about the Iraq man who tipped U.S. Marines to the location of American POW Jessica Lynch.(Thanks to the GMU Oist Club)

  • Whose "peace" do you support?

  • Wow

    I’m writing a paper on bias in the media for my foreign policy class, and while checking out today’s comics I noticed that all thirteen comics that featured political topics were against the war, the Bush administration, or both. This makes me all the more glad that cartoonists like Cox and Forkum exist to provide…