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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:18:46 GMT
Today is my 44th birthday. I remember thinking, when I was in grade school or junior high school, that I would be 44 in the year 2000. Here it is, and here I am. Hard to believe. To celebrate, we're going to the Big Apple Circus at Fan Pier before driving home this afternoon.

Mike Shelton's cartoon today at the Orange County Register is a brilliant commentary on the Microsoft anti-trust case. [ocr]

Llewelyn H. Rockwell, Jr. at WorldNetDaily - Antitrust: A Political Weapon: "Strip away the jargon, and it becomes clear that the government wants to nationalize Windows, the operating system that has brought the miracles of online commerce, research, and entertainment to the world. When the government ran the Internet, it was a dead system of transfer messages between government offices. Microsoft has shown what private enterprise can do: change the world for the better." [wnd]

Daniel Mitchell at the Heritage Foundation - Microsoft Ruling an Inept Stab at Industrial Policy: expresses the same opinion as the Jerry Pournelle article I pointed to on Tuesday. Microsoft's big mistake was thinking they could succeed by serving their customers. They forgot to buy off Washington politicians. [mind]

Dominick T. Armentano at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute - A Travesty of Justice: Mr. Armentano is the author of Antitrust: The Case for Repeal. "My position on antitrust has never been ambiguous. All of the antitrust laws and all of the enforcement agency authority should be summarily repealed. The antitrust apparatus cannot be reformed; it must be abolished."

Charlotte Hays at National Review - This Bush Has Horns: a review of Molly Ivans' book Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush. Though Ivans' intention was to skewer GW, Hays thinks the book actually pointed out his strong points. [wnd]

Dave Kopel at the Cato Institute - The Federal Leviathan is Counting on You: "American history shows that when the government starts asking about your race, it's time to get concerned." [wnd]

Thomas Sowell at the National Post - The mob and the Diallo trial: a screed against the politicization of justice. To which I ask, when the police and the courts are corrupt, where is the justice?

Peter Noel at the Village Voice - If a Cop Kills My Son: "I have a 13-year-old son, and any police officer who kills my son, he's dead! Period!" My sentiments exactly. Though it might be hard to believe, given the venom I spit on these pages, I have a very pacifist nature. Except when it comes to my children. Hurt them and you're dead. It doesn't matter what color uniform or funny hat you wear. No court, no law, no other person will be involved. Hurt my children, and I will kill you. I don't understand this part of myself, and it often frightens me, but it's there, very strong, completely non-linear. [wnd]

Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine - Drug-Related Death "Patrick Dorismond was a casualty of the war on drugs. Dorismond is dead because the police were trying to lure people, apparently at random, into selling marijuana. He is dead because the government is determined to disrupt this activity, even though no one involved in it is complaining. In short, Dorismond is dead because politicians like New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani can't stand the thought that someone might alter his consciousness with a politically incorrect substance." [wnd]

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