Friday, June 23, 2006
Who Cares About Article Nine? (10:19 PM) - Japan still cannot legally project force in any very substantial way—though movements are afoot to change that—but their money, boy can they make it talk….
About That Quiz (09:51 PM) - Folks are talking about this quiz. It’s a quiz which asks the quizee to determine, after reading a quotation, whether the words are those of political commentator Ann Coulter or tyrannical dictator Adolph Hitler. It asks this of fourteen passages….
Tigerhawk in the Far East (09:27 PM) - “I am web surfing with the people, here.” Though it would be prudent to mind that old Tigerhawk has got his Blackberry, which is on a comfortably Canadian network. American businessmen can go to China and see a significant amount…
Spinning the Times (05:40 PM) - According to a mass e-mails dispatched from Dartmouth’s Office of Alumni Relations and reprinted below with names and addresses redacted, the New York Times article of two days ago, which lays out the issues with the proposed constitutional overhaul and…
Offense Taken (04:34 PM) - Kathryn Lopez notes that the Vice President takes offense at the New York Times’ disrespect for civil liberties….
Suing for the Right to Racially Discriminate (11:40 AM) - The Detriot Free Press reports the stunning fact that a few individuals and several ad-hoc interest groups are filing suit in Michigan courts to stop legislative efforts to make racial discrimination illegal in that state. U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow…
Dispatch from the front lines in ‘the war on the war on terror’ (08:15 AM) - Scott Ott scrambles to report on the New York Times’ reportage this morning of a newly-discovered secret United States program which allows our intelligence services to get information on terrorists’ bank transactions. An excerpt from Ott’s report follows, but please…
Charles Krauthammer Loves Australia (08:07 AM) - And what’s not to love? A burgeoning wine industry, a national politic centered around the active promotion of peace and liberty, and saucy parliamentarians with gorgeous locutions. Krauthammer recalls: “In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia…