Month: December 2003

“The Edge,” a slick and glossy publication produced by the TAMU Business Council is one of the most anti-business magazines I’ve ever read. Whether bashing McDonalds or the “moral depravity” of Martha Stewart, some of the editorials beat Pravda in their distate for capitalism. The only jobs I’ve seen praised are for non-business groups like…

I’m embarrassed to admit that “Free Willy” was my favorite movie when it first came out (back when I was an enviro-freak.) So I found this interesting: Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the “Free Willy” movies, has died in Norwegian coastal waters where he remained after millions of dollars and a decade of…

Check out “The Racism of ‘Diversity’” a great editorial by Peter Schwartz starring Texas A&M’s president Robert Gates. Gates sent out a university-wide email announcing that race will not be used as a factor in admissions. I applaud the announcement, but wonder why he promoties other racist policies, such as hiring a new diversity czar.…

A Russian Student Encounters Marxist Indoctrination—at San Francisco State University

Ever wonder how a terrorist thinks?

More death-worship from the Palestinians. Anyone who still thinks only a minority of Palestians support terrorism is living in a fantasy world.

Researchers who found that young Muslims were to blame for many attacks on Jews were told several times by the European Union to change their conclusions, they said yesterday. The report’s authors responded yesterday by saying their findings had been shelved because criticism of Muslims did not fit in with the centre’s agenda. … They…

Check out this masterpiece of evasion by Howard Dean on the Drudge Report. Observe how he expects the media companies to offer themselves as willing sacrifices for the sake of “democracy,” and that he defines “censorship” not as the absence of governmental control of the press, but as the active use of government coercion to…

China’s communist authorities are training “Internet police” to trace political dissidents using the world wide web to evade state censorship.

Russia has rejected the Kyoto Protocol. As TCS points out, Russia’s real motivations have more to do with pragmatic politicking than any regard for the sound science, but with the EU itself falling far behind its own Kyoto goals, this environmentalist wet dream (and economic nightmare) is finished. Good riddance!