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I started this website in early 2001 to share my views on minimalist web design. With the notable exception of Google, minimalism never became popular, and when I grew tired of swimming against the tide, I stopped writing about it. In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, I felt that by not … Read more
Iraq official presses U.S. for pullout plan – Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com: “National security adviser says any security deal must contain timetable” Iraqi leaders are publicly demanding a timetable for troop withdrawal. Over the past seven years, when an American, however, has demanded a timetable for withdrawal the Bush administration attacks the timetable as foolish … Read more
It is not a secret that the US government uses aggressive propaganda techniques. Furthermore, even when the US government is not directly manipulating the major news organizations, the media tends to support the official position. If the news organizations and the government are sometimes misleading the public, what can we do? The first step to … Read more
Christopher Hitchens from Slate.com is proud that his support of the Iraq War has never wavered. In this piece, he does a pretty good job of explaining why we should support the war. It’s so good, that the White House should hire him. But, he is still wrong. He thinks it was scandalous that Iraq … Read more
Lou Dobbs wrote an editorial on CNN.com recently that has some serious flaws. Dobbs: Democratic hacks embrace lunacy of amnesty. First, he spends most of the article calling people names. One has to read through all of the following before he stops insulting people and starts talking about the issue of illegal immigration.· “Democratic hacks”· … Read more
One of the skills we are supposed to learn in law school is how to find inconsistencies in arguments. When taken to extremes, people say we are nit-picking. Please tell me if I am nit-picking John McCain or if these are serious logical errors. Everything comes from this article:MSNBC: McCain fears ‘Tet Offensive’ in Iraq … Read more
McCain said some silly things today: We left Vietnam. It was over. We just had to heal the wounds of war. We leave this place, chaos in the region, and they’ll follow us home. . . . [I]t’s not the end when American troops leave. The battleground shifts, and we’ll be fighting them again. You … Read more
Most people agree that the Federal Government does a bad job representing the interests of most Americans. People think that politicians are either controlled by corporations, liberal elites, religious conservatives, special interest groups, or lobbying money. Let’s just agree that politicians don’t really try to make life better for Americans, but, today, let’s not try … Read more
North Korea has apparently successfully tested a nuclear device. Many things will be said about this event, but I would like to stress one of the most important lessons here – we caused this problem. For 50 years, we have had at least 30,000 American troops stationed a few miles from North Korea. This constant … Read more
MSNBC.com reports that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld doesn’t understand why the families of soldiers that unexpectedly had their one-year Iraq deployment extended by four months are upset with him. In an interview during his flight to Fairbanks, Rumsfeld said he saw no reason for the soldiers or their families to be angry with him. … Read more