It's been a couple weeks since I've posted because I've been busy running for state office here in NH. There's been a lot I've wanted to talk about and I've been letting it pile up, so here's another of my classic numbered posts:

1) Iran wants to stone Nazanin Fatehi to death for protecting herself from a gang of rapists. Of course, had she * ( Read more... )

1) Yet another reason we need school choice: a geography teacher in one state can't help ranting and raving about President Bush between teaching state captials and another school is hosting a mock trial of President Bush for war crimes and human rights abuses.

2) In "Reason" magazine, Jacob Sullum argues that the federal partial-birth abortion ( Read more... )

After reading these two articles from conservative newspapers (the first from Harvard, the second from Michigan State), I'm leaning towards "not publish" but you can make up your own mind. Both make great points and I think that Harvard's case is different from Michigans and that both made the right choice for their particular campus. (Note: these ( Read more... )

If only he were alive today to reproach Durbin and Amnesty Int'l.

"The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country." -Daniel Patrick ( Read more... )

One of the incredibly positive effects of the campaign in Iraq (and one of the main reasons I supported the war) is the growing democratic movement in the Middle East. A few examples from NRODT ( Read more... )

You may remember that I posted about the Chabad rabbi who wanted to hold prayer services at home. Well, the case has been decided. On June 3rd, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Rabbi Konikov, declaring that Orange County's actions were not in accordance with the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. (The only ( Read more... )