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Archive for June 30th, 2002

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

Credit Where Credit is Due Oh Yes! Dept.

Unqualified Offerings is pleased to report that Justin Raimondo credits this site by name for coming up with the term “split-screen republicanism,” especially since, ahem, he hasn’t always done so.
Raimondo’s Friday column is a response to Glenn Reynolds’ most recent FoxNews.com column. For my part, I think that Justin both mistakes the intent of Reynolds’ [...]

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

Jihad in Baltimore

The great Post reporter Richard Leiby profiles Abu Mujahid, ne Aukai Collins, in the Washington Post. Mujahid is a Euro-American prison convert to Islam who fought in Chechnya and southeastern Europe. According to the post, in his book memoir, My Jihad, he angrily rebukes the idea that terrorism can have any legitimate function in Holy [...]

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

Taking Political Correctness to an Absurd Degree

No, not the Pledge decision. UO can’t get worked up about that. It’s this: an MSN.com promo this morning on grilling has a picture that shows the grill being tended by a, well, a vaginal-american. The infamy!

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

Last Thoughts (For Now) on Domestic Anthrax

Anthrax did not prove to be anything like a “weapon of mass destruction.” But someone killed five people. That someone has to pay. And if the feds are delaying the murderer’s comeuppance for political purposes, they need to pay too. (NB: UO opposes the death penalty.)
Which leads to a final speculation. Someone within the FBI [...]