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Tuesday, December 17, 2002
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The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing: "America-bashing is anti-Americanism at its most radical and totalizing. Its goal is not to advise, but to condemn; not to fix, but to destroy. It repudiates every thought of reform in any normal sense; it sees no difference between American liberals and American conservatives; it views every American action, both present and past, as an act of deliberate oppression and systemic exploitation. It is not that America went wrong here or there; it is that it is wrong root and branch. The conviction at the heart of those who engage in it is really quite simple: that America is an unmitigated evil, an irredeemable enormity." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] [Counterpoint]
A long article, not too well written, but it offers an interesting idea. The author claims that the hatred leftists have for America comes from a fantasy world-view they've adopted as a way to cling to Marxism.
9:16:12 PM 
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Vatican backs GM foods. The Vatican says GM foods should be used to feed the world's hungry.
A spokesman says the controversy over altered foods is more political than scientific.
Archbishop Renato Martino says it is better people eat GM foods than eat grass. [Ananova]
The irony of the Catholic Church speaking in favor of science and technology is pretty amazing. That's quite an accomplishment for the ecofreaks--they've managed to make the Vatican look enlightened.
3:30:16 PM
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Bush gives go-ahead to missile defence. The US president backs the deployment of a national missile defence system by 2004, days after the failure of the latest anti-missile test. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
Makes the system sound awfully unreliable, doesn't it? However, buried way down at the bottom of the article is this detail:
There have been eight tests of interceptor missiles so far - three have failed.
Or in other words, over half the tests have succeeded. Now, if I had a choice between being defended by a system that works over half the time or not being defended at all, I know which I'd choose. But then, I'm not a liberal.
9:44:46 AM
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