This one’s unbelievable. In May 1999 a man walks into a convenience store in Iowa at 4:30 a.m. wearing a paper bag over his head, athletic socks on his hands, and tells the cashier “Trick or treat” and then tells her to give him the money. She gives him the cash. He orders her to…
March, 2001
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The issue of what is and is not permissible religious expression in public schools in the United States tends, unfortunately, to gravitate to the extremes. On the one hand are public schools, typically in the South, who want to prominently display religious texts such as the Ten Commandments in schools. On the other hand are…
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About twice a day it seems I get the same boring spam/scam about how I could make thousands of dollars by helping Nigerians transfer money out of that country. This is a long-running scam that predates the Internet and has fooled victims literally around the world — including a U.S. Congressmen. Former Congressmen Edward Mezvinsky…
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ArsTechnica recently linked to one of the better (though short) reviews of Edwin Black’s IBM and the Holocaust. Reviewing the book for The New York Times‘s, Gabriel Schoenfeld wwrites of the book, The key question, in any case, is not whether I.B.M. sold Germany its equipment but whether, as alleged, it made the Final Solution…
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Bradley Peters wrote a very comprehensive reply to my query about how people act in combat situations which includes a ton of interesting references.
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This is really unbelievable. Apparently the Pennsylvania State University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom had its constitution and mission statement censured by the PSU student government. According to the student government, the YAF constitution and mission statement were discriminatory. How were they discriminatory? Both referred to upholding “God-given free will, whence derives the right…
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Near the end of the 2000 political season, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ran a controversial advertisement implying that George W. Bush was responsible for the murder of James Byrd. The ads features Byrd’s daughter, Renee Mullins, doing a voice over saying that after seeing Bush oppose hate crime laws, “It…
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Later today the President is going to give a speech about 100 yards from my office here in Kalamazoo, the main effect of which is I won’t get to work out because they’ve decided to have him speak from the Recreation Center here. The security here is amazing — they shut down most of the…
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Okay, here’s something really amazing I can do with Conversant that was basically impossible with a static system. At Overpopulation.Com I have a list of all the countries of the world. The minor amazing part is that web page is one short macro that automatically pulls all of the country names from the underlying directories…
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Environmental News Network reports that the Colombian government has begun fulfilling one of its obligations under a $1.3 billion U.S. aid package approved last summer and stepped up its aerial spraying of herbicides in southern Colombia. The Colombian army estimates that about 75,000 acres of coca plants have been eradicated through intensive spraying of Roundup…