Category Archives: politics

the freedom to come and go

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 17 by Anton

Plaintiff’s Consolidated Opposition to Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss in Gilmore v Ashcroft. Related items here. John Gilmore is challenging the secret regulation which supposedly requires passengers to either show an official annotated photograph (internal passport) or submit to search. As … Continue reading →

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gun control, a prerequisite to genocide

Posted on Thursday, 2002 December 12 by Anton

Kopel, Gallant & Eisen on Uganda & Gun Control on National Review Online

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the steamroller

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 10 by Anton

I wouldn’t have thought the EU could be so crude – yet. Laws were being forced through the Polish Parliament, at the behest of the EU . . . . Perhaps the most insidious new provision in the Polish Constitution is that a … Continue reading →

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it’s all a game anyway

Posted on Saturday, 2002 December 07 by Anton

Wincanton (Somerset) twins with Ankh-Morpork (Discworld). (Relayed by Richard Alexander on anarchysf.)

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not black enough II

Posted on Friday, 2002 December 06 by Anton

Natalie Solent looks at pusillanimity.

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not black enough

Posted on Thursday, 2002 December 05 by Anton

PermagrinGirl, whom I just found by way of Clayton Cramer, gets off a zinger: I’m still wondering, though, if it’s always ‘blackface’ to dress up as a black person, even if you’re costumed as an actual person (like Venus Williams), … Continue reading →

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pay no attention . . .

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

A correspondent asks: Anyone else starting to wonder if the IAO isn’t a sacrificial Day-Glo “rabbit” intended to draw eyes away from the real danger buried somewhere in, say, the Department of Agriculture?