Monday, October 21, 2002

US sniper hunt police renew appeal. Police hunting a sniper urge a mystery caller to contact them again, as it emerges that two men detained earlier are not linked the killings. [BBC News | Front Page] Apparently the two men were illegal imigrants who happened to be in the wrong place with a white van. comment () trackback ()  8:06:08 PM     How Many Americans Does it take to Change a Dim Bulb?. A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to rush in where Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives fear even to think about treading. A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyay, so he can afford to step fearlessly on every "third rail" there is in American political life. [The Libertarian Enterprise] L. Neil Smith on what the Libertarian presidential candidates ought to be saying. comment () trackback ()  12:00:56 PM     Serbia fails to elect president. Serbia will have to hold fresh presidential elections after only 45.5% of eligible voters turned out for Sunday's run-off, independent elections monitors said. Under Serbia's electoral law at least 50% have to take part to make the poll valid. [BBC News] This is great news for Serbia, where the politicians now have to spend their time trying to convince people to vote instead of passing new laws making life harder and getting in the way of people trying to make a living. I wish the US had such a law! comment () trackback ()  10:31:59 AM     Gun Control's Twisted Outcome: Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. The English government has effectively abolished the right of Englishmen, confirmed in their 1689 Bill of Rights, to "have arms for their defence," insisting upon a monopoly of force it can succeed in imposing only on law-abiding citizens. It has come perilously close to depriving its people of the ability to protect themselves at all, and the result is a more, not less, dangerous society. Despite the English tendency to decry America's "vigilante values," English policy makers would do well to consider a return to these crucial common law values, which stood them so well in the past. [Reason Online] comment () trackback ()  10:13:14 AM     'Men arrested' in sniper hunt. Police searching for a mystery sniper in the Washington DC area reportedly arrest two men at a petrol station. [BBC News | Front Page] American TV networks say one man was detained while using a telephone box near a petrol station near the town of Richmond, Virginia. [...] Reports of the arrests came after police appealed to an unidentified person who left a note and a telephone number near the scene of the latest shooting at a Virginia restaurant to make contact. Perhaps the snipers finally made their mistake. Although there's not much information, what has been reported is the expected result of someone trying to call the number that was left. comment () trackback ()  9:49:17 AM     nSync brings iSync-like capabilities to Newton [MacCentral] I wouldn't have any use for this myself, but it does show how Newton software development is continuing years after the Newton was "Steved." comment () trackback ()  9:41:50 AM     Irish Vote to Approve EU Expansion [AP World News] It's informative to compare this mainstream media story with the weblog story on the referendum. The AP story looks like it was written by an EU public relations hack, and doesn't even mention the opposition viewpoint. comment () trackback ()  9:37:48 AM     Frogs in the EU pot [Samizdata.net] An account of the sleazy tactics the "Eurocrats" used to make sure they got the answer they wanted this time in the Irish referendum. comment () trackback ()  9:28:01 AM

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