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Freedom's Nest contains a large database of quotes and lots of book pointers. Their motto is "Anti-conservative. Anti-liberal. Pro-freedom." [latte]
There's a new issue of The Libertarian Enterprise. This one is mostly about the Forty Thousand Moms March. I especially liked the letters, lots of stories of people who attended Second Amendment Sisters counter-rallies.
Justin Raimado at AntiWar.com - McCaffrey Must Go: Why Barry McCaffrey is dead meat. Analysis of the Seymour Hersh article that clinched his fall, Overwhelming Force (at Cryptome, the New Yorker doesn't put their content on-line). Warning, these articles contain graphic descriptions of atrocities. Don't read them if you're squeemish about such things. [lew]
McCaffrey's fellow soldiers, those who served with him in the wartime headquarters of the 24th Division, contradict his assertion that American soldiers were attacked after the ceasefire: almost uniformly, they describe quite the opposite, an endless column of ragged boys and bedraggled old men, without equipment or even uniforms, utterly incapable of putting up much of a fight, even if they were so inclined. As one American soldier put it, he came away from the Gulf War thinking that he had been part of "the biggest firing squad in history." ...Surely he deserves his day in court -- and if there is any justice in this world, that is where he will wind up -- but in the interim he needs to resign from this administration, so as to devote full-time to his defense -- at his own expense, of course. In short, McCaffrey must go -- and the sooner the better. At a time when the Clintonistas are posing as the great "humanitarian" saviors of the world, can they really afford to harbor an accused mass murderer like McCaffrey in their midst? I think not.
Curt Bolding at Sierra Times - The Layman's Guide to High Capacity Magazines: Why magazine capacity laws are bad for the good guys and make no difference to the bad guys. [sierra]
A gun is nothing but a tool and it's only as good as the person using it. Let me spell it out real simply for you. Imagine there are two groups of monkeys and they all have sharp sticks. Now imagine that a bunch of touchy-feely prudes want to take the sticks away from one group; namely the group that you just happen to be in. They're picking on your group because it's too hard for them to figure out where the other group is getting their sticks. What do you do, hotshot.... what do you do? Well, I know what I'm going to do:Start hoarding sticks.
Joseph Sobran at LewRockwell.com - The Church of Silence: concerns a new book, The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, which tells of the torture and killing of likely tens of millions of Catholics by the Communists and Nazis. The strange thing is the silence from the "free" world Catholics about these atrocities. Again, don't read this if you're easily upset by descriptions of violence. [lew]
Matthew Purdy at New York Times via Cannabis News - Drug Sentences Mean Having to Say You're Sorry: about judges who apologize about imposing mandatory minimum sentences on people who don't deserve them. [cn]
Dick Snider at the Topeka Capital-Journal via Cannabis News - Lots Of People Praying That War On Drugs [Continues]: The war on some drugs generates huge profits for lots of people, not just the criminals running the black market. No wonder it's so hard to end. Points at Stephen Young's on-line book, Maximizing Harm. Another one for my copious spare time. [cn]
Wired - Vaccine May Nix Chemotherapy: a vaccine may replace chemotherapy as the treatment of choice for colorectal cancer. [wired]
"JNerve is a Java implementation of a napster server. The primary goal is cross-platform compatibility. With some luck and good coding, it will kick butt." [meat]
Pliant as a programming language framework. It allows both small script-like programs and large efficiently-compiled programs. Compilation happens dynamically, on the fly. The language syntax is extensible. Like Python, indentation is significant. Looks interesting. Also looks like it will take a while to grok. They've already written clients and servers for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, & POP3, a DNS client, and a database engine. It claims to run on Linux and Windows, can't tell if it will compile for PPC Linux. [meat]
