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Relativism, how I loathe thee (especially on a syllabus)

War for Oil

Greetings

Don't be economic girlie men!

RE: Tiffany Tavern

RE: Everything

Tiffany Tavern

The Duhks!

Whew...

For future reference

Define Your Terms, Matt

RE: Why I'm Right

RE: Matt Sitman is a snob ;-)

Am I a Snob or Not? Wait, Don't Answer That...

Freedom is on the march...

Orange Revolution Spreading South

Could someone please remind me why I'm not in Moldovia? Dick Morris sets out an optimistic agenda for the hopeful democratic turnover as elections near in this former commie country.

Lovin' those Liberals

A Must Read

Michael Novak Bothers Me

I'm Angry (and back)

The Theme Song of the Glorious (and Victorious) Orange Revolution

Rallying to Mel?

Novak on Communism

RE: CPAC's Immigration Debate

Wow.

Good Novak Post

CPAC's Immigration Debate

Putin continued

Departures: A Personal Apology for an Activist Foreign Policy

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Bully for Bush

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Melinda Haring

The Great Game, 2.0?

Actions Speak Louder than Words

From the Phantom Blogger

In the Senate, Santorum has the second highest lifetime conservative composite score of any GOP Senator (Brownback is first). This is higher than Frist, George Allen, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Hagel...you get the point. This guy is NOT a RINO. I hope you Santorum haters out there will consider his voting record when deciding whether to take him out or not in '06 (imagine, considering someone's voting record!).

Ok, just wanted to point out some of you may be opposing (or know someone who is opposing) the second most conservative senator (lifetime rating) in his re-election bid.

Super George

RE: Conservatives and Libertarians

Lord, Hear our prayer

The Pope has suffered a relapse...

"Love is the DNA of the children of God."
-- Pope John Paul II

Conservatives & Libertarians: Can this marriage be saved?

Can the marriage between conservatives & libertarians be saved? This was the question of the very enjoyable evening at America's Future Foundation debate in Washington, DC last night.

Keep in mind, I do offer these observations as a libertarian, which may slightly bias the way I see the strength of the arguments. That being said, Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine easily crushed his opponent's weak arguments. Gillespie argued that while Republicans and Libertarians may ally on innumerable fiscal issues, once the Grand Old Party takes power they spend like a drunken Ted Kennedy. Incidentally, has anyone ever seen a sober Kennedy? Doubtful. He further reminded the audience that even giants like Ronald Reagan have tempted libertarians to stay in bed, to use their analogy, with the rhetoric of tax cuts and less spending. However, the actions of Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II do not accord to with rhetoric. In other words, they're promiscuous lovers, promising us the world and sleeping with anyone who will enhance their power.

In frustration to the tepid arguments offered by the affirmative "let's stay together for the children," I asked, "Bush has really no excuse not to enact pro-liberty legislation. He doesn't have to worry about re-election. What do we have to look forward to in the second term? More tariffs, more terrible education bills, more bloated Medicare, more Arlen Specters? At what point do we split the sheets?"

W. James Atlee III of The American Conservative tried to wash his hands of W., saying that true conservatism isn't what Bush espouses. (Only I know what true conservatism is, Atlee implied through body language and remarks, more than once.) He's essentially alluding to Fred Barnes helpful distinction between big government conservatives and small government conservatives.

But big government conservatives have an incentive problem and/or severe myopia. President Bush no longer needs to sleep with Democrats on education, Medicare, trade issues, etc. in order to secure his re-election. If he fundamentally knows that something is bad policy - policy that has marked his first term - why continue to advance wasteful spending? Secondly, if we continue to increase federal spending and permit the government to further regulate and prescribe how life should be ordered, then when the Democrats eventually assume power, they'll have an even larger arsenal of spending options with which to harass us. But as Gillespie so eloquently stated, it's not about party; it's about the state and the incontrovertible fact that the state grows over time and reversing expansionist policies is almost impossible.

Declaration of Revocation
by John Cleese

To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories.

Except Utah, which she does not fancy.

Your new Prime Minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a Minister for America without the need for further
elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.

A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium." Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour'; skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters.

You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."

You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to re-spell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.

Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary." Using the same thirty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "uhh", "like", and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.

Look up "interspersed."

There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary, then you won't have to use bad language as often.

2. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier).

You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents --- Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles.

While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon." If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.

4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters.

British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.

5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.

6. You should stop playing American "football." There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.

The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.

Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies).

We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2005.

You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders," which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day."

9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap, and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.


All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call 'French fries' are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat.

Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling "beer" is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine." This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in the Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "gasoline," as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon -- get used to it).

14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.

16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).

Thank you for your co-operation.