Reading List 3 December 2004

Kojo Annan is looking more and more guilty in the oil for food scandal all the time.

Radical muslims use freedom of speech laws to preach hatred against liberal western countries, specifically Europe.

Michael Reagan tells us why the NAACP should draft Bill Cosby to replace recently retired Kweisi Mfume.

Switzerland demonstrates how the federal government need not solve problems and make policy for every area of life. Here's an article about the Swiss nationalism and neutrality, I think it's a great model for the US.

Mark Rich, the criminal who was pardoned by Bill Clinton, has recently come under scrutiny for his suspected involvement with the UN oil-for-food scandal which began the month after his pardon.

Now that the United States is finally pulling our troops from Kosovo, what's next? This left-winger actually criticizes the UN for its 'illegal war' in Bosnia. The New York post opines today that the Kosovo war was illegal since it lacked UNSC approval (the same criticism we hear about the resumption of the Gulf War which was suspended in 1991). The New York Sun slams Europe for its repeated willingness to ignore humanitarian crises, such as those in Kosovo and Iraq. Has Ted Kennedy ever called the War in Bosnia illegal or a quagmire?

George Tenet is calling attention to potential security threats from an unregulated internet, claiming cyber-terrorists could attack the United States via unsecure portions of our internet infrastructure. Is that also a 'slam dunk', George?

While the US government is busy writing IOUs to the Chinese government as we run up our deficits in the growing Iraq quagmire, the Chinese are unleashing their new nuclear submarines.

A great column by Maggie Gallagher expaining the Constitutional argument for States legislating the legitimacy of medical marijuana.

John Kasich opines that our Social Security system is broken. However, unlike the Democrats, he actually offers a solution.

Is CO Representative Tom Tancredo already campaigning for the 2008 GOP primary? GOP split on immigration/9-11 intelligence reform bill.

If you don't know what the 'Blame America first' crowd is, read this. If you agree with the author, you're part of it. Here are my 2 favorite statements.

• During the Revolutionary War, militiamen shot at British soldiers from behind rocks and trees, breaking the conventions of war. [thereby making us terrorists according to the prior sentence]
• It was not our military might that brought down the Soviet Union. [It wasn't?]