Departments

;

Liberty and Power

  • Nov 28, 2004

    God Hates Fags... But Shepard's Killers Don't

    by Liberty and Power

    Lots of news is being generated over a 20/20 report that casts doubt on the murder of Matthew Shepard as a"hate crime." I am firmly opposed to legislating"hate crimes" and spoke out against it even in the context of the Shepard murder. And yet, while Elizabeth Vargas, the investigative reporter, uncovers a number of problems with the"gay hate" nature of the Shepard

  • Nov 25, 2004

    What Can I Say?

    by Liberty and Power

    From Tom Friedman's New York Timesop-ed today:
    I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still manage to produce young men and women ready to voluntarily risk their lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to spread the opportunity of freedom and to protect my own. And I want to thank them for doing this,
  • Nov 25, 2004

    What Happened to Outsourcing?

    by Liberty and Power

    The demand for accountants is soaring, according to many news reports. (See this and this.) College graduates looking for jobs in accounting have it very good indeed. Only a few months ago a host of fear-mongering, protectionist pundits and politicians (Lou Dobbs of CNN, to name one) were warning that this was the very kind of job that would be
  • Nov 25, 2004

    It's the Policies that They Hate

    by Liberty and Power

    The Defense Science Board, a Pentagon advisory body, says what some of us have been saying all along: U.S. policy is what has made radical Muslims hate us to the point of wanting to harm us. According to a board report,"Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies." This echoes the thesis of Michael Scheuer, the former CIA exper
  • Nov 24, 2004

    Butt out, Mr. Secretary of State!

    by Liberty and Power

    Referring to the official announcement that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had won the Ukrainian presidential elections, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the U.S. "cannot accept this result as legitimate, because it does not meet international standards and because there has not been an investigation of the numerous and credible reports of fraud and abuse." I wonder how Americans would have reacted had foreign statesmen declared in 1960 that they could not accept the el
  • Nov 24, 2004

    A Turkey of an Idea

    by Liberty and Power

    My take on the government’s suggestion for the holiday.

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Nov 24, 2004

    Of Locusts, Lincoln, and the Lord

    by Liberty and Power

    As millions of locusts swarmed through Israel over the weekend, some commentators are already speaking of Biblical symbolism and omens. Even here in the U.S., the debate over religion and moral values continues on an almost daily basis.

    So, here comes a report (discussed here) that religious conservatives are angry about

  • Nov 23, 2004

    Hurd on Same-Sex Marriage

    by Liberty and Power

    The gay marriage debate has brought out a lot of venom on both sides of the issue divide. It's also brought out a little humor from Roseanne Barr, who, on"Jimmy Kimmel Live, commented:"First of all, if you are someone who thinks that gay sex is gross and unnatural, then you should be for their right to marry, because that will put an end to all that sex, just like it does for the straight people."

    Ah, Barr puts her finger on one of t

  • Nov 22, 2004

    End Taxpayer Support of PBS Propaganda

    by Liberty and Power

    As regular readers of Liberty and Power know David Beito has pointed out CBS’s Sixty Minutes broadcasted some extremely poor journalism in regards to the Emmett Till case. However, at least CBS paid for that tripe themselves. In today’s Washington TimesBruce Bartlett tells about a partially taxpayer funded program on PBS, Frontline, with even lower standard