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December 2006

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad now burns in Hell. The greatest travesty of this man’s death is that he killed so many, yet we can only kill him once. Still, his actions were so far beyond the bounds of humanity that his death was necessary. Such evil should never be tolerated. The Hussein regime [...]

Posted in Iraq, War On Terror

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Predictions 2007

As is my annual tradition, I’m releasing my inner Nostradamus and coming up with a few predictions for the coming year… Iran will announce that they have completed work on a nuclear weapon and will conduct nuclear tests, showing once again how the intelligence community got it wrong. However, Ahmadinejad will face great political backlash [...]

Posted in Predictions

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Wii!

I finally managed to snag one of the ultra-popular Nintendo Wii consoles today, being lucky enough to wonder into a Target an hour after a shipment had arrived and catching one of the last 3 in stock. The Wii, despite having a rather silly name, is just freakin’ fun. The graphics aren’t fantastic, although Wii [...]

Posted in Nerd-O-Rama

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The Star Tribune Sale

Power Line has some observations on the sale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune to a private equity group. The previous owners, McClatchy Co., bought the paper for $1.2 billion in 1998 — they sold it for only $530 million. Ostensibly, McClatchy sold the Strib to offset the taxable gains they incurred when they bought out [...]

Posted in Media

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Gerald Ford – 1913-2006

Former President Gerald Ford has passed away at the age of 93. Ford had the unenviable task of leading the country in the wake of the Watergate scandals, and he did it with integrity. His decision to pardon Richard Nixon, which probably destroyed his Presidential career, was the right choice. He handled his difficult period [...]

Posted in Politics

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How Not To Win Friends And Influence People

Jonah Goldberg has an excellent response to an ad hominem attack by Andrew Sullivan that exposes just why Sullivan’s descent into cheap invective is so distressing. As Goldberg puts it: My blog posts are not debated sections to some party platform of the Third International, each syllable pregnant with tactical and ideological import. The old [...]

Posted in Political Philosophy

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