Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for October 31st, 2002

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

The Citizen And/Or the Police

Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Glenn Reynolds picked up and carried forward a phrase Unqualified Offerings tossed off last week in the context of the sniper shooting, that we citizens needed to be “a pack, not a herd,” and that by treating us as a herd, police were endangering us by their paternalism. Patrick’s discussion on [...]

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Dear Osama

I am God. We recently furthered the cause of Islam by shooting and robbing a beauty shop owner in Baton Rouge, thus terrorizing “an ever thickening ring around the nation’s capital.” This Jihad stuff is great! We simply do exactly the same sort of stuff that violent drifters in a downward spiral have done as [...]

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Morning Murder Minute

Boy, these items have gotten a lot less…frantic. And that’s a good thing. This morning’s Post reports that the famous rifle was used in the Alabama slaying after all. Early reports were that it was a different gun. Early reports also stated that the police found a handgun in the blue Caprice, which turns out [...]

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

March Mail

Some interesting mail came in about UO’s piece on Saturday’s antiwar march item. (Perhaps the first weblog item in internet history to be favorably cited by Antiwar.com and Instapundit on the same day. As Glenn Reynolds put it, “Jim, you should take this as either a sign that you’re doing something right, or that you’re [...]