tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140120532011-11-27T05:36:24.974-05:00(Don't let the bastards grind you down.)Noncarborundumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064616862081834429noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012053.post-55653088435219591732007-05-18T12:03:00.000-04:002007-05-18T12:30:02.442-04:00

If I ever need me a lawyer, I'm going straight to Peter Lushing, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.Mr. Lushing writes a letter to the New York Times [sub. req.] today, in which he shares his thoughts about the domestic surveillance program of such egregious illegality that top Justice Department and F.B.I. officials, including John Ashcroft, spoke of resigning over it:. . .

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Peeved as I so often am by Cathy Young's insistence on ever-so-scrupulously splitting the difference between the mostly right and the egregiously wrong, I welcomed the letter in today's Boston Globe from Mark A. R. Kleiman, a UCLA professor from whose blog she quoted in a recent article on global warming.. . . Young suggests that overenthusiastic advocates [of taking global warming seriously—ed.]

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Townhall.com publishes the following, from the pen of columnist Walter E. Williams, and Mark Levin at the National Review Online endorses it.Does the United States have the power to eliminate terrorists and the states that support them? In terms of capacity, as opposed to will, the answer is a clear yes. Think about it. Currently, the U.S. has an arsenal of 18 Ohio class submarines. Just one

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A "senior administration official", according to the Weekly Standard, is responsible for this:The idea that the jihadists would all be peaceful, warm, lovable, God-fearing people if it weren't for U.S. policies strikes me as not a valid idea. [Democrats] do not have the understanding or the commitment to take on these forces. It's like John Kerry. The law enforcement approach doesn't work.George

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Ut enim sunt . . . qui urbanis rebus bellicas anteponant, sic reperias multos, quibus periculosa et calida consilia quietis et cogitatis spendidiora et maiora videantur.Those words at the top of this blog are fake Latin (a real translation of "Don't let the bastards grind you down" would be something more like "Improbos te terere ne sinito", but who would recognize that?), but I've actually been

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Were there voters in the Connecticut Democratic primary who voted against Joe Lieberman because he's a Jew? Probably a few, here and there; you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence with which some voters approach the ballot box, and bigots hold the franchise too.Nevertheless, it is objectively insane to suggest, as Rush Limbaugh has, that being Jewish had anything to do with

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The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a Constitutional amendment to prevent flag desecration. All 50 state legislatures are on record as favoring such an amendment. And later this month the amendment will come to a vote in the Senate, where it is reportedly within one vote of passage.I never understood why flag burning was such an issue. After all, the U.S. Code recommends burning

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But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense. —George W. Bush, President of the United States, Rose Garden press briefing, 4/18/06Wait a minute, I'm the leader! I'm the one that says when it's the end. It's the end. —Napoleon, hound dog, Disney's The Aristocats, 1970

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Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three deaths, two to three births, and three neat facts in your journal, including the year.January 10Deaths:1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)Births:1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d.

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We know that when the White House denies they’re doing something, that probably means they’re doing it. The NSA warrantless wiretap program was well under way when George W. Bush told an audience in Buffalo:Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking

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Okay, I admit it. I was suffering from a severe imagination deficit when I wrote on Wednesday: "I'm guessing [John McCain] won't be calling Falwell an 'agent of intolerance' this time around."That was just four days ago, and already McCain has shown that he's not simply retiring his former opinion of Jerry Falwell; he's actively repudiating it. Clearly he's convinced continuing to be mean to

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This just boggles the mind. The Associated Press reports:STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A Swedish court has imposed a 20,000 kronor ($2,600) fine on a woman kennel owner who refused to sell a puppy to a lesbian.The kennel owner, who was not identified, had initially been willing to sell the woman a puppy but changed her mind when she found out the woman was living with a lesbian partner, according to

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Even the best of us get to make ourselves look silly once in a while, and today it appears to be Bob Somerby's turn. Bob writes the Daily Howler, which you'll find in my list of links, and I highly respect his work. Most of the time. But today he's come up with this, well, you know . . . howler:Good God! Kaplan and Kaplan spent some time writing a book on “adventures in probability.” For their

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I had intended to post a much longer comment on John McCain's recent activities, but there's just no time. Suffice it to say that I'm very, very disappointed. Although we differ on a whole raft of issues, during the 2000 campaign I admired his independence, his forthrightness, and even his occasional (at least apparent) unscriptedness. He called his campaign the "Straight Talk Express" and the

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Newsweek:Julie Scheving, a 46-year-old resident of Holland, Mich., doesn't believe the decision to open "The Da Vinci Code" on May 19 happened by chance—she believes it was an act of God. The movie opens on her birthday, and Scheving, a born-again Christian, is planning on using the occasion to buy tickets for at least a dozen of her "unchurched" friends. Though the movie's claims about

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A quick Google blog search shows a surge of good feeling on the left regarding the latest Pew Research Center survey involving, among other things, attitudes towards gay marriage. And certainly some of the numbers look good.For example, opposition to gay marriage is off 10 percentage points, from 61% to 51%, since December, 2004; strong opposition is also off over the same period, from 38% to

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Speaking of censure, Andy McCarthy has this to say over at National Review Online:On that score, it looks like Tuesday's [Senate Judiciary Committee] hearing will include testimony from some legal experts (including perhaps some past or present FISA court judges). Expect the program's opponents to try to glean from Tuesday's witnesses "expert" opinions that the program is illegal, which said

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Russ Feingold is right. There's significant evidence that George W. Bush broke the law when he authorized the NSA's program of warrantless wiretapping, and for that he deserves censure. Whether Feingold can persuade enough other Senators—even within his own party—is another question.Even if Feingold's current proposal goes nowhere, however, perhaps he should already be gearing up for the next

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Physicist and staunch advocate for sound science education (i.e., teaching evolution) Lawrence M. Krauss makes an interesting observation—several, actually—in the April/May Free Inquiry (not yet available online, but I'll post a link if and when).Krauss contrasts statements issued by two U.S. presidential administrations a mere 13 years apart:Science, like any field of endeavor, relies on the

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A click here, a click there, and pretty soon (if you're not careful) you find yourself deep in the bowels of an alternate, and not entirely pleasant, reality.At issue is whether military casualty (actually, fatality) figures used by the mainstream media misrepresent the severity of American losses in Iraq and Afghanistan. RedState.org's "Proud Kaffir" says they do: "This is all simlpy [sic]

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The Associated Press tells us that President Bush has been using straw-man arguments in his speeches. It's nice to see some mainstream news outlet finally cotton on to something that should have been obvious for years to any sentient human.In a straw-man argument, for those not in the know, one constructs a flimsy caricature of an opponent's position -- the "straw man" -- and then noisily knocks

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John Dunleavy, the chairman of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade, explaining why he prevented a group of gay Irish-Americans from marching this year:If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?No, of course not. That would be like forcing the

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Reported, not verbatim, but as close as memory allows:Radio commentator Michael Savage has tackled the difficult problem of Cindy Sheehan's motivation, and boy, does he have her pegged.Savage opines that Sheehan looks like she wanted, when she was younger, to be in one of those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, but was "too ugly at the time." Now she's found a way of getting media attention, and she's

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Kudos to the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, which minces no words when explaining evolution's scientific status to its visitors:Is evolution 'just a theory'? A "theory" in science is a structure of related ideas that explains one or more natural phenomena and is supported by observations from the natural world; it is not something less than a "fact." Theories actually occupy the highest

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The two religious words that became part of the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 are hardly the most important issue before the courts these days. And yes, people have gotten used to them over time. But the reasoning on display in Monday’s New York Times editorial on the subject has me scratching my head.According to the Times, the 1954 Act of Congress that inserted the words “under God” into the

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As we remember the three thousand who died in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pa., let’s not forget that they were only the first of 9/11’s victims.Without the 9/11 attacks, the invasion of Iraq wouldn’t have been possible. According to former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, the Bush Administration was from the very start developing plans to invade Iraq and depose Saddam

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This claims to be a screen capture from Ireland of a news report on Sky TV. The good people at Snopes are calling this "Undetermined" until they can confirm that it hasn't been manipulated somehow. Bear in mind that if this is authentic, it came from a Rupert Murdoch outlet (which is either an argument against its authenticity or a reason to savor it all the more). But even if it isn't, it's

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On Tuesday I wrote about the Washington Post’s failure to fact-check a false assertion by an unnamed Bush Administration official. The official claimed that as of Saturday, September 3, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco had still not declared a state of emergency, and the Post reported that assertion without qualification, as if it were true. As a quick Google News search (or a call to

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CNN reports that the city of Charleston, South Carolina scrambled to prepare when informed by FEMA that a planeload of refugees would be landing in half an hour."We called in all the available resources," said Dr. John Simkovich, director of public health for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. "They responded within 30 minutes, which is phenomenal, to meet the

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Editor & Publisher points out that the Washington Post yesterday quoted a “senior Bush official” as saying that “as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor Kathleen] Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency."Later the Post ran a correction. The “senior Bush official” had in fact gotten the date wrong, not by hours or even days, but by more than a week. Blanco declared a state of emergency on

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One of the little annoyances surrounding the great big annoyance of November 2, 2004, was all the media chatter over the exit polling that purported to show that “values voters” had gone overwhelmingly for Bush. The implication that Kerry voters somehow lacked concern for “values” was, of course, enthusiastically received on the Right, where people had been saying this for years anyway; on the

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Thomas Cadmus, National Commander of the American Legion, declaring at the Legion's national convention in Honolulu that his comrades in arms did not, in fact, die to make us free:The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against freedom-loving peoples .

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Today's nominee for stupidest thing ever said on television: this, perpetrated by Larry King on Tuesday's Larry King Live:All right, hold on. Dr. Forrest, your concept of how can you out-and-out turn down creationism, since if evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?Today's nominee for saddest fact about the American education system: there are people around who consider this a serious

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In its July 2005 issue, The American Muslim magazine published an article in which Dr. Robert D. Crane endorsed what he called a "traditionalist" approach to the foundation of law. He described this approach as "rooted in the self-evident truth that neither the individual person nor the collective of humankind is the ultimate sovereign in the universe, and in the corollary conviction that,

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Okay, Bill, here I am.Last week on The O'Reilly Factor you promised you'll be investigating ACLU donors in the coming weeks because "[n]o organization in America enables terrorism as much as the ACLU, period."Why not start with me?I had never given much thought to the ACLU before September 11, 2001. Yes, the organization's commitment to free speech for all was laudable, and their willingness to

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Someday I will figure out how Bill O'Reilly finds the strength to look in the mirror every morning.This is the man, after all, who is so concerned for Christianity's place in our culture that last December he repeatedly trumpeted the charge that Christmas was "under siege" by "media forces of darkness" and "secular progressives [wishing to] destroy religion in the public arena". O'Reilly has

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Robert Novak's August 1 column was the subject yesterday of a New York Times story by Anne E. Kornblut. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of journalism so resolutely focused on the inessential.Novak's column mentions the fact that Joseph Wilson's entry in Who's Who in America identifies his wife by her maiden name, Valerie Plame. Kornblut seems to think that this is a suggestion from Novak "

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From a WFLA radio interview with Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO; proud owner of a 100 rating from the Christian Coalition) [emphasis added]:Tancredo: You know, there are things that you could threaten to do before something like that [a nuclear attack within U.S. borders] happens, and then you may have to do it afterwards, that are quite draconian.Interviewer: Such as?Tancredo: Well, what if

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When Karl Rove made his comments before the New York Conservative Party contrasting conservative and liberal responses to 9/11, the reaction focused on the ridiculous things he said about liberals:But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war;

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Opponents of church/state separation say that it's a myth foisted upon the American people by militant secularists bent on oppressing Christians and removing all hints of religion from the public square. They imagine that abandoning the concept would usher in an era of renewed morality as we allowed God back into our schools, prominently displayed His Commandments on our courtroom walls, and

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It's now official: There is no limit to the pettiness of the current Republican congressional leadership.Two months ago it was Republican staffers rewriting House Judiciary Committee reports to make it look like Democrats had offered amendments for the explicit purpose of aiding "sexual predators". Challenged, Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-2nd Grade) defended the practice:You don't

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When the issue was whether a shell of a woman with no higher brain function should be kept alive in apparent defiance of her own stated wishes, Congressional Republicans and the White House were ready to move heaven and earth to ensure that her case got more federal judicial attention than the law required.When the issue is whether a state is about to execute a person wrongly convicted of a

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This bumper sticker is a little late for the campaign season, but more apposite than ever (image clicks through to store).

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Adam Cohen in yesterday's New York Times brings to our attention the story of a North Carolina judge who last month refused to allow Muslim witnesses to swear on the Qur'an, saying that if he allowed that, someone who worshiped brick walls might want to swear on a brick.On the strength of Cohen's piece, I was prepared to hurl a brickbat of my own at the judge, W. Douglas Albright—something along

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This Fourth of July, for the first time, my house sported the Stars and Stripes. It's not as though I just started being a patriot. I've always felt fortunate to live in a country founded on the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, a country that claims to stand for equality, liberty and justice and that, at its best, actually strives to achieve

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Public Broadcasting must be running scared. According to this report in The New York Times, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is so concerned about its funding that it's preparing a television project "to impress Congressional patrons" that appears to violate PBS's own journalistic standards.According to the "Public Broadcasting Service Editorial Standards and Policies", PBS holds its

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Before last November's election, right-wing commentators were convinced that the terrorists wanted John Kerry to win. So the only real question is, if al Qaeda's active and capable, what are they going to do? Because we know what they want: they want Kerry, they want the Democrats in power, they'd love that. -Rush Limbaugh, 3/15/04[terrorists] are going to throw everything they can between now

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From today's New York Times op-ed page:Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib, told Maj. General [George] Fay about visiting a weeping 11-year-old detainee in the prison's notorious Cellblock 1B, which housed prisoners designated high risk. "He told me he was almost 12," General Karpinski recalled, and that "he really wanted to see his mother, could he please call his mother

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One more word on the Schiavo case. (I was going to write "one last word", but Jeb seems determined to make that hopeful statement false.)Last Tuesday's New York Times printed this letter from a professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook regarding the Terri Schiavo autopsy:     Terri Schiavo's autopsy report claimed that she was probably blind. Supporters of the decision to starve her to death

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