Unqualified Offerings

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’ […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

Unqualified Offerings can handle being caught in a rhetorical dodge, but it’s embarrassing being caught in a rhetorical dodge it didn’t know it was taking. In an e-mail headed “UO Watch,” reader/gaming buddy Greg Pearson writes anent the anthrax speculation item below to point out that, while all that stuff about “greymail” is very nice, […]

The Talking Dog mocks this third-tier blog by referring to Unqualified Offerings as a “weblog powerhouse.” Hey, from your lips to our stat servers ears, TD! Anyway, TD e-mails to say that if we’re bringing Palestine into the Union, that we won’t need 53 states.

Actually, if you proposed making the new state of Palestine ALSO […]

Another pinko blogger caught linking to right wing isolationists! Check out his one-act play about The War Against Bad ThingsTM.
Unqualified Offerings feels obligated to mention that socialism still sucks.

Warblogger Andrea Harris, who must read this site just to keep her blood pressure up, vociferously disassociates herself from the odious Larry Kudlow, as Unqualified Offerings sort of requested. “Sort of” because Harris also avows “I am not a libertarian — small “l” or large “L” or any of that” and it was specifically interventionist […]

At Unqualified Offerings, our motto is, “Content isn’t just king, it’s a hermit king.” At Anton Sherwood’s Sightseeing in Plato’s Cave, Content lives all by itself. Unqualified Offerings wishes that Sherwood would condescend to narrow his text columns, but then, Unqualified Offerings wishes a lot of bloggers would condescend to narrow their text columns. But […]

Unqualified Offerings mentioned this new weblog a few days ago. On the evidence of his postings since then, we are already way past flash-in-the pan status. Two meaty pieces weigh in on the gender disparity in undergraduate degrees. There’s a substantial item on quantum computing, and a couple pieces on Bush’s Middle East the speech […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.)

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Glenn Reynolds agrees that freedom is worth the odd nuke - which is nice, since Unqualified Offerings woke up this morning wondering, “Did this site really write that?” He raises a couple of objections to UO’s conclusions. One of them is just the old “not all slopes are slippery” argument. That’s true enough, but doesn’t […]