Tag Archives: Politics

Tort reform

By alex | Published: 7/4/2006
No, this isn’t really about tort reform. Mike Ferner posts about getting arrested for drinking coffee while wearing a political T-shirt. He wore a Veterans for Peace short in a Chicago VA hospital and was arrested for “protesting” in the hospital. My thought is that it isn’t enough for a court to just dismiss the […]
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Independence Day

By alex | Published: 7/2/2006
Just in time for independence day, a reminder of what makes us Americans (wmv): Chris Matthews:…There is another side to this argument. Let me ask you: Do you believe that people who fight us as terrorists deserve Geneva Convention treatment? Lt. Cmdr. Charles Smith: It’s not whether they deserve it or not, it’s how we […]
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Ignorance is strength

By alex | Published: 6/25/2006
These two links have been in my publishing queue since this morning, but now that Kevin has posted one of them, forcing me to break my self-imposed “1 a day” publishing pattern. First, it would be nice if the new head of the NSA knew the constitution that he has sworn to uphold. Unfortunately, not […]
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Diploma Riots

By alex | Published: 6/21/2006
There is an interesting article in the Times today about Students at Shengda College in central China rioting because their diplomas read “Zhengzhou University, Shengda Economic, Trade and Management College.” They thought that by paying extra tuition, they were guaranteed a diploma that only had the name of the more prestigious Zhengzhou University. The natural […]
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