In the days following September 11, 2001, New Yorkers who couldn't work on the front lines supported those who did. A volunteer at the James Beard House shares her personal recollection for the first time. (Read more...)
While I don't intend to spend time fighting a presidential election that Kerry has already thrown, the coming election will also decide - especially at the Senate level - whether Bush will be able to pack the Supreme Court with theocratic stooges, and eventually end constitutional government in the United States, as o...(Read more...)
Barbara Branden, Peter Cresswell ... & Stephen Hicks. Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 9/08/2004, 3:21am
Barbara, responding to Peter reviewing Stephen, says (SOLOHQ, Sept 8): Peter, you beat me to it. I've almost finished reading Stephen Hicks' "Explaining Postmodernism" and I had already begun a review for Solo! It is indeed a mesmerizing and important book. Since you have so well reviewed it, I will not f...(Read more...)
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked an appellate court to keep its arguments secret for a case in which privacy advocate John Gilmore is challenging federal requirements to show identification before boarding an airplane. ... "We're dealing with the government's review of a secret law that now they w...(Read more...)
This woman is truly heroic. After fleeing an arranged marriage in Somalia, she worked her way through an education in political science, and is now openly challenging Islam as an MP in Holland:After describing the Prophet Mohammed as a pervert, Ayaan Hirsi Ali already needs round-the-clock protection from the Dutch se...(Read more...)
As a follow-up to a growing memoir of that tragic day (see also posts from 2001, 2002, and 2003), I offer this interview of "My Friend Ray," a "Not a Blog" exclusive.(Read more...)
Appeasement - telling it like it is. Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 9/04/2004, 5:15pm
"The journalists are apparently now free. Though I am delighted for them and their families, I am NOT celebrating. The Saddamite French government, the 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys,' has done SOMETHING to allow this release and only time will tell what they have ceded to this time. They are cowards and scum. I am s...(Read more...)
George W. Bush's steel tariffs of 2000 did not merely destroy hundreds of steel-using enterprises in the United States and lose hundreds of thousands of American jobs. Bush's steel tariff also destroyed many jobs and enterprises in South Korea, the major supplier of inexpensive high-quality steel to American industry....(Read more...)
Paris — School doors opened for 12 million French children Thursday, but there is far more at stake this year than back-to-school jitters.
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