Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for March 31st, 2002

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

Separation Anxiety

Honesty requires referencing two problems with the unilateral disgorgement option that Unqualified Offerings has been pushing as the least bad solution to the current terror war in the middle east:
1) According to an audio clip on MSNBC.com, the Matza restaurant bomber was an Israeli Arab, with citizenship papers, who would, obviously, not have been stopped [...]

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

Hanging’s Too Good For ‘Em

Scott Shuger attempts to find a fitting punishment for convicted terrorists up to and including bin Laden, since “If Osama Bin Laden were caught and convicted of masterminding the 3,000 or so 9/11 deaths, he could still only be executed once, and not by being flung from a burning building.”
His suggestion makes an intriguing alternative [...]

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

When They Came for the Special Interests I Said Nothing Because I Was Not a Special Interest

The rare palatable George Will column today about the asinine Campaign Finance Reform that George “Split-Screen Republicanism” Bush signed on his way out of town last week.
The day after Congress passed it, The Post’s lead editorial celebrated the bill, which includes restrictions on political advocacy by such organizations as the National Rifle Association, which has [...]

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

Eerie Prescience No Longer “Pre”

Via the redesigned and better-looking Airstrip One, this Daily Telegraph story about infighting among America’s local “allies” in Khost:
For the Americans, the intricacies of tribal allegiances and enmities are apparently baffling.
Unable to separate truth from lies, they have put all the commanders on the payroll, subscribing to the theory that, if they hand out dollars [...]