This ol’ blog deserves better than a 5 day span of non-updates! I’m drawing a blank on something to complain about though. I’m excited that DC is no longer bordered by two blue states. It was getting almost unbearable. The print edition will be distributed around campus relatively soon. E-I-C Hunter and TBird are...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Texas ’
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Stirring Words from Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan’s latest column in the WSJ is one of her finest in a long while. She is a great writer and a clear-headed thinker, so I won’t feign surprise… But her moral clarity in discussing President Bush and what he has done to Middle America and to Conservatism is right on. A highlight:...
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In Defense of NAFTA
(HT: Carpe Diem) If NAFTA is so terrible, why is it that more U.S. jobs have been created in the 14-year period after NAFTA was passed than in the 14-year period before NAFTA? There is a great editorial in the WSJ comparing the effects of NAFTA on Texas & Ohio. Texas has gained 36,000...
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The Case For Concealed Carry Permits, In Light of Virginia Tech
Everybody has heard by now about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. And no doubt, this is going to make the gun control debate resurface, with cries for stricter laws so that people like the man who did this don’t get their hands on guns. Well, I’m going to say that those people are wrong....
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I Could Make a "Tookie" Williams Joke Here, But That Would Be Even More Tasteless Than The Blastocyst Comment
Via NACDL (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) comes a Chicago Tribune editorial calling for the abolition of the death penalty. No surprise–apparently, the Tribune has been shouting that line on its editorial page for more than a century. Anyway, the editorial is good food for thought. It avoids dense philosophical arguments and cuts...
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Is this the next culture battle?
Today the New York Times is running a piece on polygamist immigrants on the east coast. The topic of the story is immigrants who face deportation and up to four years in prisong if outed as having multiple wives and the NY Times takes a refreshingly negative view on this activity. In the famous...
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A Real Independence Day
Today in 1836 the Republic of Texas declared it’s independence from Mexico, starting the Texas Revolution which ended in the creation of the greatest nation-turned-state…ever. I will be celebrating by talking big Texas talk, and talking down to all other inferior states that were NEVER their own countries…losers
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