Saturday, May 03, 2003

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HOW TO HAVE ALLIES The refusal of GWB to declare victory in Iraq may seem puzzling to many but it is an example of considering other...

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THE NAVY RULES Bearing in mind that Clinton slashed the size of the U.S. Navy, this is an interesting email from a reader: Bush...

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ELSEWHERE What fun! Garlic seems to ward off prostate cancer ! But what if your breath puts the lady off? Great! Australian “Anti-...
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Friday, May 02, 2003

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SORRY! LEFT/RIGHT IS ALL THERE IS In my academic postings of April 30th and May 1st. here are two published articles that have never...

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THE DOUBLE TAX INJUSTICE Greenspan says the tax cut is not needed for growth . How about the tax cut being needed for justice and equ...

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ELSEWHERE Tony Blair says that the image of GWB as an intellectual lightweight is “complete bull” and “total nonsense” . Since no-one...
Thursday, May 01, 2003

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THE “NOBLE SAVAGE” A reader writes: I came across this PDF which has a great discussion of the history of the 'noble savage...

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MORE “GREEN” FOLLIES This book review tells some of the story of the Amazon misadventures of pop star STING and "THE BODY SHOP...

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LADY THATCHER SPEAKS FORMER British leader Margaret Thatcher has praised Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair for his leadership during t...

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ELSEWHERE Carnival of the Vanities is up again. And a jolly good job Dave has made of it. Arts & Letters rate this old Wired in...
Wednesday, April 30, 2003

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A SCIENTIST’S REPLY TO THE GREENIES One of my readers has written in with an extensive review of the work of Philip Stott (Professor o...

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ELSEWHERE It looks like some Iraqis are about as grateful for being liberated as the French are. No doubt they feel “humiliated” tha...
Tuesday, April 29, 2003

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MY “CHINA” BLOG The Chinese seem to have become really serious about internet censorship in recent months. They re-blocked Blogspot s...

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ELSEWHERE Wow! There IS a treatment for SARS available. I hope the bureaucrats let it off the leash soon. How amusing! France an...
Monday, April 28, 2003

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** FIXING IRAQ Steven Hamori Writes: I read an article by an Arab intellectual where he theorized that one of the Middle East's ...

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ELSEWHERE Well, at least everybody seems to agree that postwar Iraq must be governed by a Federal system . Total independence for the...
Sunday, April 27, 2003

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FASCISM AND THE "THIRD WAY" A reader writes: I agree with your analysis of the leftist roots of Nazism. Although in some wa...
Saturday, April 26, 2003

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LOTS OF GOOD STUFF: There is a short article that gives a burst of common-sense about human cloning in The Scientific American here W...
Friday, April 25, 2003

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AN INSIDER’S COMMENT ON BRITAIN’S “NATIONAL HEALTH” A British doctor who started out as an idealistic supporter of socialized medicin...

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ELSEWHERE Western Australia has introduced minor price controls on petrol (gasoline). The result? On average Western Australian mot...