Dan on Al Queda in Saudi
Dan has written a rather long, but excellent piece on the relationship between al Queda and the Saudis. He raises some very interesting point, while lowering expectations for future Western relations with the Saudis. I highly recommend his musings on the subject. It is one of those rare blog pieces that is worth printing out and keeping.
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Colby has written a rather interesting article about the whole sordid mess. Nothing quite like the state ruining a bunch of people’s lives based on the word of some liars and loons, is there?
2 commentsA degree of bon appetit’
Terrance reports on one daft degree course one can take to waste one’s time. Its modules look extremely taxing even for the less able chef.
Comments are off for this postThe Bean-Counters are NOT our friends
If it can be done wrong, they will find each and every way to do it wrong with great flourish. Politically driven, mindless, unthinking, and selfish job-preserving bureaucrats are more dangerous to us than any declared enemies, for they destroy from within. No country is immune from their ability to undermine any useful purpose of a government agency no matter how well-intended such institution may be.
Mark Steyn has captured the essence of this in his last paragraph; we ignore his insight at our peril !
A pox on all bureaucracies !!
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If you want to find a group of people who are full of their own imagined importance, it’d be tough to beat the American Library Association, in high dudgeon over the Patriot Act’s provisions to allow the FBI or other agencies to subpoena library borrowing records. Nat Hentoff, the renowned Village Voice columnist and First Amendment absolutist writes on this here. (It’s worth clicking on the link just to see the picture of one Marie Bryan, striking what she hopes is a heroic pose amidst the bookracks. She instead looks like she’s spying on someone, which in my experience is not an unknown habit in the profession.)
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