Tuesday, July 30, 2002

The Destructive Romance of the Intellectuals. The British novelist Martin Amis has written a new book, Koba, The Dread about Soviet Communism and the utopian delusion. It is about the romance of western intellectuals with a fantasy whose real world incarnation has already killed at least 20 million citizens of the Soviet Union and probably 100 million all over the world. The crime committed by these victims of the progressive dream was their refusal to go along with the claims of "social justice" and the requirements of instituting a socialist state. [FrontPageMagazine.com] comment () trackback ()  7:51:05 PM     Choosing Your Battle Rifle. The Garand was designed for the .30-06 cartridge. While its slightly more powerful than .308, it's significantly rarer, as it was only ever used in a few military rifles (none in active service today). [Doing Freedom!] This survey of battle rifles available to civilians contains the rather bizarre statement above. The author seems to be unaware of how incredibly common .30-06 rifles are--perhaps he's writing from outside the US? comment () trackback ()  10:41:50 AM     RadioExpress: "I just did my first Radio Userland "extension". I wanted to be able to blog things I found around the web without having to copy/paste from that page to the R8 edit form. Blogger has a cool bookmarklet to do that. ManilaExpress also does that for Manila. However, R8's default form editor does not support receiving default text via external forms. So I changed it and repackaged it in the form of a new R8 page. It comes with it's own bookmarklet which you can easily install in your navigator's toolbar." It works! comment () trackback ()  9:48:15 AM     Smith: 2nd Amendment Meant for People to use Against Tyranny!. Henry declared that the government was being granted too much money and too much power; that the power of the federal courts would enable the president to swell the patronage rolls; that the people were negligently suffering their liberty to be wrested from them; and that the treaty-making power of the president was one of the Constitution's most fearful features and would lead us into the most ruinous of foreign engagements. He advised the people that the Constitution was being written as if only good men would take office. "What will you do when evil men take office?" he demanded. "When evil men take office, the whole gang will be in collusion! They will keep the people in utter ignorance and steal their liberty by ambuscade!" he warned. He added: "Your laws on impeachment are a sham and a mockery due to mutual implication of government officials!" [FirearmNews.com] Unfortunately everything Henry warned about came true. The Bill of Rights delayed the process, but didn't prevent it. comment () trackback ()  9:22:06 AM

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