Archive | September, 2002

A Declaration of Independence…from the United Nations

(2002.09.30 ) Politics

Imagine the following scenario: if on the eve of American independence, the founders had asked the world’s permission before they revolted against the English crown. Imagine if the question of American independence rested not in the minds of the patriots, but with the kings in the palaces of Europe. And [...]

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Defusing Iraq’s Ticking Timebomb

(2002.09.30 ) Politics

Some critics of President Bush’s desire to launch a pre-emptive military strike against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are troubled by the fact that it would be

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‘A Totalitarian Effort’

(2002.09.30 ) Politics

Stanley Kubrick may be gone, but his portrayal of a hellish future corrupted by the abuses of corporatist government are alive and well. Nowhere are such dark prospects more in evidence than at the “Sustainable Mobility” presentation by the “World Business Council for Sustainable Development” (WBCSD) at the similarly named [...]

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The “Corporate Axis of Evil”: Patriotic Companies Crossing the Delaware

(2002.09.29 ) Politics

Just before leaving town for the August recess, both houses of Congress saw fit to declare war on the “Corporate Axis of Evil”–Bermuda, Barbados, Gibraltar and a number of other offshore tax havens. Speech after speech in the House and Senate decried the “unpatriotic” American companies who reincorporated abroad to [...]

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The Return of the Al Gore

(2002.09.29 ) Politics

If anyone had any doubts about whether Al Gore was going to try to run for president again in 2004, his speech in San Francisco on September 23rd should have put those doubts to rest. The former vice president was in top form, doing what he does best — making [...]

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Marketing 101 for Broadband Service Providers

(2002.09.29 ) Politics

Every day I’m bombarded with television commercials from broadband service providers in my area. Companies like BellSouth, Charter, AT & T, and Earthlink are competing relentlessly for my broadband dollars. And there isn’t a single thing in any of their television commercials that would cause me to pick one company [...]

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West Nile Virus: The Environmentalist’s Epidemic

(2002.09.28 ) Environment

The Washington Post reports that a 54 year-old Northern Virginia woman died this Sunday after being infected with the West Nile virus. The woman was Virginia’s first death from the mosquito-borne illness. To date, the Centers for Disease Control reports over 2,000 Americans have been infected and over 100 Americans [...]

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Orwellian ‘Peace’ Movement

(2002.09.28 ) Politics

For decades, radicals have gobbled up words such as ‘peace’ and ‘progressive’ and spit them out as the pillars of anti-American, radical leftist philosophy. Nothing’s changed. Pacifists and progressives with the keen ability to convert illogical into something that passes for quixotic idealism litter America’s campuses. One of the leading [...]

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Poor Language, Poor Thinking

(2002.09.28 ) Politics

Here’s what the Harvard University Civil Rights Project’s “scholars” said in a July 2001 press release: “Almost half a century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and ‘inherently unequal,’ new statistics from the 1998-99 school year show that racial and ethnic segregation continued to [...]

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Freedom of Association

(2002.09.27 ) Politics

Do Americans really cherish freedom of association? Are there any justifiable restrictions on freedom of association? In my book, any restriction on one’s right to associate freely with anyone he pleases, on mutually agreeable terms, is both offensive and a gross violation of human rights. Let’s think about it, starting [...]

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