WFB asks, “Is President Bush Racist?”
George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina, and Racism by William F. Buckley — Critics of Mr. Bush may by their excesses be undermining not him, but the weight of sound thought. The most clearly vulnerable line of attack has to do with vacation time — taken as an absolute indicator of fidelity to duty. “George W. [...]
The Governator Terminates California Same-Sex Marriage bill
Getting a tip from a post by Richard Reeb from The Remedy blog at The Claremont Institute, they’re posting that the AP has reported on the latest Same-Sex Marriage bill in California. The AP is reporting that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto the gay marriage bill on the grounds that it conflicts with Proposition 22, [...]
A City in the throes of Death
It’s been fifteen years since I visited New Orleans. Our college jazz band was playing an annual jazz festival there and it was a thrilling three days. What was a fun-filled day meeting all sorts of jazz greats was only eclipsed by the nightlife in the French Quarter. It was truly charged with a mystique [...]
Egypt refuses to sign nuclear treaty
Egypt refuses to sign nuclear treaty — Egypt’s foreign minister on Saturday turned down a request from the world’s nuclear watchdog to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, saying Israel should first join a separate agreement calling for a halt to the spread of atomic bombs. The refusal by Israel to join the United [...]
William F. Buckley Jr. on Curbing God’s Laws
Conventional wisdom says religion is for dumb, gullible people and the intelligent elite, as a group, tend to reject faith for science and philosophies of, well… dead Austrian or German men. Why does faith have to be at odds with logic? Why does faith have to presuppose the wholesale rejection of reason or rational thought? [...]
US influence high in former Soviet republics
Russia Has Lost Ex-Soviet Republics to West — The Kremlin has lost the former Soviet republics to the West, a leading political scientist told popular daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Wednesday after a high-ranking Kremlin official said the Russian leadership planned to overhaul its policy in the area and establish “civilized rules of the game†with [...]
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