December 20, 2001 -
Power grab at Interior Department? - By Sarah Foster, ©
2001 WorldNetDaily.com, Proposal would give employees new
law-enforcement authority. In the wake of the terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, certain parties in the Department
of Interior are using the nation's heightened concerns about security
to advance a long-standing agenda that would turn DOI into one of the
nation's "top cop" agencies – right up there with the FBI, BATF and
the other law-enforcement agencies of the Justice and Treasury
departments...
December 13, 2001 -
Addicted to oil - Economist.com, America's energy policy was
wrong before September 11th. Now it is even more so. IF SEPTEMBER 11th
really did change the world then one thing it changed, you might
suppose, is how the West, and in particular the United States, should
think about energy. America's dependence on oil imports from the
Middle East has led it to see the stability of the region as a vital
security interest. In defending this interest over the years, its
military and political entanglements have grown more costly and more
complicated. In some ways, it is argued, these policies may have
become self-defeating. America's military presence in Saudi Arabia,
for instance, may make the region less stable, not more. All of which
leads some to conclude that America and the West should henceforth
minimize their involvement—economic, political and military...
December 26, 2001 -
All that's left - © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com, It is becoming
very hard for independent thinkers to embrace the American left these
days. Over the holiday season, we were barraged with articles and TV
news spots about the growing legion of homeless Americans – stories
that were designed to make us feel guilty. The usual suspects were
photographed at public shelters or on the streets. Most of the
articles implied that more government funding is the solution and the
root cause of the problem is the bad economy. Of course, this is not
true...
December 03, 2001 -
When Bilbo met Rincewind - By Rupert Goodwins,
ZDNet (UK), COMMENTARY--There is no sight more pathetic
than a teenage nerd who just doesn't get Tolkein. Excluded
from society because of unbounded lack of interest in cars,
sport, soap operas or popular culture in general, the spotty
anorak has but one recourse: the company of his peers. Those
peers have their own parallel world of intellect, scientific
curiosity and incredible social incompetence--and, invariably,
fantasy fiction. Woe betide those who don't want to carve
their names in runes on desks, who can't tell an orc from a
origami unicorn and think that any game involving a dice with
more than six sides is silly. And damnation befalls the
unlucky soul who can't get beyond chapter one of Lord of the
Rings before falling asleep, for he will be cast into the
outer darkness and left to get on with Philip K. Dick...
