Saturday, June 07, 2003

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DEVALUED CREDENTIALS Fellow blogger Carol Johnson , has emailed me about my post in which I mentioned that many British colleges are s...

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GREY GOO In response to fear recently expressed by the Prince of Wales that micro-robots might one day turn the world into grey goo , ...

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ELSEWHERE Britain’s decision not to adopt the European currency is a great victory for economic rationality over political symbolism....
Friday, June 06, 2003

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BROOKES NEWS Gerry Jackson of Brookes News writes regarding my recent post about Oliver Wendell Holmes defending taxes: “A couple ...

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ELSEWHERE Hey! Affirmative action has its uses. At least it led to the downfall of the notoriously biased Howell Raines . Some ...
Thursday, June 05, 2003

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"DISCRIMINATION" IN IMMIGRATION A reader writes: A thought about Australian immigration policy: The development of large...

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ELSEWHERE What rot : The British government is about to start calling almost any college with more than 4,000 students a university -...
Wednesday, June 04, 2003

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TAX, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND THE AUSTRALIAN LEFT An Australian reader comments on an Australian Labor Party hero: In a recent m...

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BRITAIN Good to see that Tony Blair is so hugely popular worldwide. Being a man of principle does pay off in the long run. Overwe...

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ELSEWHERE A LUTHERAN priest was suspended today after his remarks that God doesn't exist and there is no eternal life rankled man...
Tuesday, June 03, 2003

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PRIVATIZING ENVIRONMENTALISM A reader writes: This article discusses some of the wins of 'Stewardship Partners', a US con...

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LEFTIST THUGS I have just put up here and here a copy of a paper I had published over 30 years ago during the Vietnam war era. It i...

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ELSEWHERE What a joke : “The Group of Eight nations yesterday pledged to "fully commit themselves" to boost development in A...
Monday, June 02, 2003

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ISRAEL TOO PASSIVE Arlene Peck's latest column is up here (post of June 1st.). Arlene says that Israel is being treated like a ban...

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AIRCRAFT SECURITY A reader writes: It's interesting to note how the press are turning the recent aircraft hijacking story into...

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ELSEWHERE There is a very powerful article here that exposes how enormously bigoted educated Democrat supporters tend to be. Anoth...
Sunday, June 01, 2003

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* OBL LOVES AUSTRALIA TOO According to Yossef Bodansky, Osama Bin Laden was known as a serious terrorist threat long before 9/11 . An...

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ELSEWHERE How about that : The latest scientific work shows that it is NOT the Gulf stream that keeps Western Europe warmer than Nort...
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...