Saturday, May 31, 2003

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SOLVING AIRCRAFT HIJACKING In response to the recent aircraft hijacking attempt in Australia, a U.S. reader has sent me an excellent ...

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BRITAIN I thought I should mention that there is ONE page on the web which has unchanging content but which I still keep logging on to...

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ELSEWHERE Miranda Devine says Greenie opposition to feral dog control in the largest national park in New South Wales is imposing eno...
Friday, May 30, 2003

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LOTS OF GOOD STUFF TODAY: Another example here of US stockmarket portfolios continually declining in value. You have to be mad to pu...

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This research finding will upset the Lefties. They hate anything that ordinary people enjoy -- from McDonalds to video games: Video games t...
Thursday, May 29, 2003

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BLOGGER.COM BLUES Ever since Google took over Pyra, the blogspot archives seem to have become progressively more and more of a shamble...

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OGBU WAS RIGHT I noted recently that Prof. Ogbu , a black researcher, has found that black students from affluent homes do poorly at s...

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LOONY WATCH These loonies are just as bad as Islamic Terrorists and should be treated accordingly. Excerpt: "The radical envi...

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ELSEWHERE Disgraceful : San Francisco's Irvine Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Californians. But the ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2003

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GOOD ARTICLES FROM BROOKES NEWS Why regulating gas prices doesn't really work. Recent events in Australia and California have bro...

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ELSEWHERE As a former Army man myself, I am pleased to see that most Americans now trust and respect their military . The military is...
Tuesday, May 27, 2003

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SCHOOL CHOICE Eleanor Spreitzer emails me that Robert Kennedy Junior was in boarding school -- a college preparatory school -- when his ...
Monday, May 26, 2003

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SAUDI CENSORSHIP Amusing: I linked yesterday to a story in the Arab News of Saudi Arabia about reformist protests in Iran. Apparen...

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LONDON AIR POLLUTION Mike Kerrigan has written in to challenge my claim that the Clean Air Act was responsible for the elimination of ...

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THE GREAT TRAINING ROBBERY Whenever the Australian or British governments try to rein in higher education expenditure or shift more of...

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ELSEWHERE A long and quite silly Reuters article by a Frenchman argues that the recent drop in value of the US dollar is due to what ...
Sunday, May 25, 2003

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MACHIAVELLIANISM IN FARM POLICY I don’t know why the penny did not drop before but it took one of my readers to point out to me that E...

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ELSEWHERE Extra anti-terrorist police patrolling London's streets have been given orders to shoot to kill suspects . Good to see ...
Saturday, May 24, 2003

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CHEAP DRUGS FOR THE POOR In response to my recent note about the attempt in Maine to force drug prices down for the uninsured, one of ...

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BRITAIN Wow! Britain is to get a national ID card . I thought only the Europeans went in for that sort of thing. When the Hawke Lab...