Here’s a quiz: When a foreign head of state makes an ass of himself by calling the leader of the free world “the devil”, what is the last thing one should do?
Answer: Say exactly what Jerry Falwell said last Friday at a “Values Voter Summit”.
“I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate … because [...]

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
- Voltaire
Hezbollah adopts Chavez as hero
UN Expert: Pope’s remarks ‘profoundly troubling’
Chavez calls Bush the devil [and praises Noam Chomsky]
Somali cleric calls for Pope’s death [in response to a papal accusation that Islam promotes [...]

I love being able to buy music online. It’s swell.
However, considering that I have aural abilities greater than those of a cheap cellular telephone, it would be really nice to be able to buy music encoded at a bitrate greater than 128k. I don’t know what idiot decided that this was “CD quality”, but they [...]

This is sick.
Creationist Christians: To remind me of my ultimate metaphysical destination, click here (I’m nothing if not accommodating).

I’m a little late with this one, but it was too important to miss: Former Iran president condemns bin Laden, praises Hezbollah. Apparently, the College Democrats, College Republicans, and a number of human rights groups got together and raised an appropriate amount of hell over the whole thing. Thanks, guys!

Along with the news of ABC’s new movie, The Road to 9/11, comes the anticipated caterwauling from the left, and in response to it, an outcry from the right about liberalism’s supposed hypocrisy regarding all things free speech.
I mention this only to re-affirm my long-held position on this kind of thing (in fact, I think [...]

Mark Finkelstein makes the point everyone should be making about inequality: It’s not really a problem.
This is an issue that was addressed ad nauseam at the IHS seminar I attended this summer. The question constantly surrounding economic issues was “what about inequality?” or, even worse, “what should we do about inequality?” My answer, of course, [...]

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