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From the Guardian:
Dear Mr President,

Today you arrive in my country for the first state visit by an American president for many decades, and I bid you welcome.

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on [...]

Fox News has an interesting op-ed on zero tolerance by ifeminist’s Wendy McElroy.
The punishment for possessing an obvious toy became the same as for possessing a real weapon because zero tolerance means zero distinctions. Zero tolerance takes discretion and evaluation away from educators and mandates responses that can be wildly inappropriate. Behavior that used to [...]

I see the word “Fascism” being casually tossed around lately by people of the Far Left persuasion. “Bush is a fascist”. “America is a fascist state”. I’m not sure if they actually know the definition of the word, so here it is just in case they stumble across my web site (thanks [...]

For some wacky reason, the idea of government enforcing good manners makes me nervous. It’s already a reality in Singapore - check out their Singapore Kindness Movement.
I had the pleasure of visting Singapore a few years ago. It’s an interesting place, with a government that strongly believes in Capitalism. It also, on [...]

Right Wing News (God, I hate that name) has an excellent interview with Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman.
Fave quote:
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the [...]

Godless Geeks has a great page listing Over 300 proofs of God’s existence.
My favorite:
#162. ARGUMENT FROM COOLNESS
(1) That’s really cool.
(2) God must have done that.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

There’s an excellent article on Reason Online on one of my recent fave topics - “Boss Talk: Why celebrities should never shut up—but stop complaining“.
I agree completely - *everyone* in the US has the right to speak their point of view, but don’t expect everyone to agree with you. And remember that the people [...]

Oy, this guy gives the doves a bad name…

Speaking of which, Peter Bagge had a fantastic cartoon in last month’s Reason magazine about the peace protests from a Libertarian’s perspective. Check out “Observations from a Reluctant Anti-Warrior”.

Interesting Einstein quotes:
On Knowledge:
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
- “Everything should be made as simple as [...]

Just came across this again and felt like posting it.
The Bill of NO Rights
The following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Cobb County, GA.
We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, [...]