Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for June, 2002

Saturday, June 29th, 2002

Live Free or Die

This is demi-cool. You can sign the Declaration of Independence over the internet via the National Archives Website. (Link via Greeble blog.)
What would make it more than demi-cool?
1) If you could use your own handwriting, as opposed to the three style options they give you.
2) You get to print a copy of the Declaration with [...]

Friday, June 28th, 2002

Wilderness of M-my-my-my

Reading this interesting Hartford Courant article on Amerithrax non-suspect-oh-perish-the-thought-we-just-sometimes-like-to-cart-truckloads-of-evidence-from-people’s-homes Steven J. Hatfill makes Unqualified Offerings realize that the distinction between the “domestic” and “imported” scenarios may not be so neat:

Hatfill later became a member of UNSCOM, the United Nations-sponsored group that went into Iraq after the gulf war to look for that country’s biological weapons [...]

Friday, June 28th, 2002

Sigh

Libertarians tend to think Clarence Thomas is the most reliable defender of individual liberty on the Supreme Court. The high-school drug testing decision shows just how low a standard that is.
(Link via What She Really Thinks.)

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

Fifth Column Watch

Unqualified Offerings begs its readers to be vigilant against the new threat of icthyoterror.
Note to Toiler: Another PRC-al Qaeda angle?

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

Department of I Resemble That Remark

Istanblog has more reason to fear Bush’s new middle east policy than the rest of us:

Bush told allies he “won’t be putting money into a society” dominated by corrupt leaders.

For an American living in a country dominated by corrupt leaders, which receives massive amount of money directly and indirectly from the US government, this sounds [...]

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

Department of Grrr!

When Libertarian Samizdata added a “Havens of Flourescent Idiocy” section to their links list, I thought it was a little over the top. Reading Blowback on the internet-radio royalty decision, I have to reconsider:

Where do all those smug, self-satisfied techno-libertarian weasels stand on this? This issue illustrates the vacuousness, and the subservience to the whims [...]

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

Department of Eeew!

Daddy Warblogs unearths an appalling NRO article by Larry Kudlow. The Daddy accuses Kudlow of advocating an invasion of Iraq purely for the sake of US business interests. Why does he draw this stale, tired paranoid conclusion? Because Kudlow comes right out and says so.
Now and then someone talks about whether pro-war libertarians should take [...]

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

Just You Wait

Unqualified Offerings is tired, Egypt, tired. Therefore it planneth not to write any major pieces tonight after all. Just a few bits here and there. Meantime, Ginger Stampley says the problem with the Reynolds Plan for keeping the War on Terrorism from dragging on by taking out Iraq and Saudi Arabia right away is that [...]

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

E Pluribus Unum

Unqualified Offerings generally avoids presidential speeches, devoting that time to more productive pursuits. But out of a sense of duty, it has read Bush’s Middle East speech of the other day. This site has all kinds of thoughts, but the first one is this: remember how The Talking Dog cheekily suggested making Israel the 52nd [...]

Thursday, June 27th, 2002

My Spider Sense Is Tingling

Virginia Postrel has a long, fascinating item about superheroes, terrorism, and the necessary violent fantasies of little kids. Check out “Killing Monsters.”
UPDATE: Fixed a bad link, thanks to a head’s up from Michael Croft.