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Archive for November 7th, 2007

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I’m Rubber, and You’re the Weekly Standard

Dean Barnett says irony is for suckers:
Everything [Ron Paul] sees is a threat of biblical proportions.
Can I get an “Awesome!” Hugh Hewitt’s fluffer, in the club newsletter of ZOMG the New Hitler! Society of America, aghast at the speck in Brother Paul’s eye. Suggestion for Dr. Ron: Tell everyone the gold standard is like Munich [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Former Chief Prosecutor at Gitmo Calls Bullshit, Quits

By Mona
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This is shocking, I say verily unheard of news. It seems the Bush Administration has been trying to control military prosecutions at Gitmo according to political calculations, and thus the formerly stalwart defender of military commissions and Chief Prosecutor, Colonel Morris Davis, just resigned in disgust. So says [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

It’s an Honor Not to Be Nominated

Will Wilkinson has his analogies wrong. If the fed chairman arbitrarily tripled the money supply, bricked up a million dollars as they came out of the dryer and made a great show of handing the gift to you “for the great job you’re doing!” you’d start to be in the neighborhood of what it means [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Remain paranoid, citizens

By Thoreau
I’m on a layover at the airport in Houston.  You know what I hate?  I hate those “The current threat level is Orange, as established by the Department of Homeland Security” messages that they repeat over and over and over.  I know it’s the least of the infringements on our liberty, but it’s so [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Don’t Fence Me In

ABC’s candidate-matching political quiz includes the question, “What should the federal government’s emphasis be in dealing with illegal immigration?” Not one option suits a genuinely (classical or contemporary) liberal position, by my lights anyway.
So I chose “Build a fence,” because I can’t see that working.