Entries from March 2005

Excellent article on gay “marriage”

Date March 22, 2005

Gays have the right, no less than “straights” have, to get married. For legal purposes, marriage is a contract between two opposite-sexed individuals. Consistent with equal protection under the law, neither gays nor straights can get married to individuals of their own sex. The argument isn’t about the individual’s right to choose monogamous cohabitation; it’s […]

Doctors now decide who lives and who dies

Date March 16, 2005

Yeah, this baby was probably going to die, anyway, but do we really want doctors deciding who lives and who dies? Deformed baby dies after life support removed

More support for the lesser of two evils

Date March 14, 2005

Every time the United States the last quarter century had acted boldly — its removal of Noriega and aid for the Contras, instantaneous support for a reunified Germany, extension of NATO, preference for Yeltsin instead of Gorbachev, Gulf War I, bombing of Milosevic, support for Sharon’s fence, withdrawal from Gaza and decapitation of the Hamas […]

Be nice to your pets…

Date March 11, 2005

…and don’t turn your back on them, whatever you do!

Has Osama given up?

Date March 10, 2005

Title says it all: Has Osama given up?

The media still doesn’t get it

Date March 4, 2005

The whole article is only available to subscribers, and I’m not a subscriber, so here’s a really good quote. For example, the other day, some secret tape recordings of George W. Bush fell into the hands of the New York Times and the excitable lads rushed into print with them, and the great herd of […]

Terror and the English Language

Date March 3, 2005

Here’s an article everyone in the English-speaking world would do good to read. We need to start watching what we say so that the facts aren’t distorted. Terror and the English Language