Author Archives: Anton

meet Alec Rawls

Posted on Saturday, 2003 February 01 by Anton

An Un-republican Form of Government In 1987, the California Sheriffs Association sponsored a bill in the state legislature to ban its electoral competition. Since then, only current or recent members of the law enforcement establishment have been allowed to run … Continue reading →

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meet Madhu Kurup

Posted on Saturday, 2003 February 01 by Anton

Thursday I had dinner with Madhu Kurup at Amarin, a Thai restaurant in Mountain View which neither of us had tried before; he didn’t comment on his, but my dish (spicy chicken with cashews) was quite satisfactory. If you read … Continue reading →

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meet Mary Rosh

Posted on Saturday, 2003 February 01 by Anton

Oh dear: John Lott, scholar-darling of the Gun Lobby, may be dirty. (Julian Sanchez of Cato broke the story.) I hope the Gun Lobby (statist-speak for all of us who don’t buy the victim-punishing dogma of Feinstein, Schumer, Brady et … Continue reading →

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where did you go?

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 31 by Anton

Traffic here declined slightly from December (4402 visits, 19910 hits) to January (4175 visits, 17380 hits). I’d like to think that’s because I added robots.txt to keep the search-engines out of non-content pages like the stats; but hits on the … Continue reading →

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our man in Vegas

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 31 by Anton

Ah! Backwoods Home Magazine carries Vin Suprynowicz‘s columns. (His free mailing-list stopped some time ago, and the archives on my links page are no longer updated.) Unfortunately BHM’s archive only goes back to December 12. Later: Whups, a bit of … Continue reading →

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the cigarette standard

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 31 by Anton

I’m sorry I didn’t record where I got this link to The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp, an article published in 1945 by a British officer who had been a guest of the Reich. It is thus to be … Continue reading →

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calm down, professor

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 31 by Anton

Glenn Reynolds writes: NO ANTI-SEMITISM HERE. Publish that cartoon with an obviously Arab figure and you’d be charged with “hate speech.” I don’t see what the fuss is about. Is it Antisemitism to compare a Jew to a Greek god … Continue reading →

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