Best get your own. And fast, too. (I hear gun shows are good places to find what you need. Plus you can circumvent all that bureaucratic red tape. Blessed, blessed loopholes.). [via Rand Simberg]

Writing in The Times Online, Michael Grove explains (yet again — only he’s British, so he does it with that cool accent those dudes have) why “hopelessness” and desperation neither excuse nor ennoble terrorism: The terrorist responsible for the bus bombing which killed 20 Israelis last Wednesday, Mohammed al-Ghoul, was explicit in his motivation. ‘How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy,’ he wrote immediately before

Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]

Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

“Peace finally has a chance,” writes James Robbins in The National Review. “On Monday, President Bush announced a bold initiative for Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation, setting forth conditions that should have been set long ago. In so doing, he implicitly rejected the framework established by the 1993 Oslo Accords, and emphasized one point in particular — Yasser Arafat has got to go.” Okay. But the question is, does Arafat know this. His

“Here’s hoping that the rest of ‘Moral Clarity Week’ has a bit more clarity”: Law prof Jeff Cooper (himself a left leaner) takes the time to graciously answer brave morality soldier MaxSpeak (champion of the “See? They did it, too!” school of ethical argument) on his charges that advocates of Israel don’t spend enough time vilifying examples of Israeli brutality. Me, I’m done with silly equivalency arguments like Max’s. With

In his Nation commentary, “The Truth on Warming,” Mark Hertsgaard examines the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 for evidence Bush administration malfeasanse. Noting that “the report could not have been released with less fanfare: It was simply posted on the EPA’s website, three unguided links in from the homepage. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never find it” — Hertsgaard goes on to uncover in it “crucial but awkward

In his Nation commentary, “The Truth on Warming,” Mark Hertsgaard examines the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 for evidence Bush administration malfeasanse. Noting that “the report could not have been released with less fanfare: It was simply posted on the EPA’s website, three unguided links in from the homepage. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never find it” — Hertsgaard goes on to uncover in it “crucial but awkward