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Good article in the Sunday Telegraph today by Joyce Lee Malcolm on the British government’s assaults on the right to self-defence.

Osama bin Laden, it seems, has released a new video in an attempt to influence the US Presidential election this week. In it (besides admitting to the 9/11 atrocities for the first time), he appeals to the popular leftist idea that if we just leave the Islamic nations alone, they will leave us alone.
This is [...]

Due to the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting, comments will now be disabled on posts older than 21 days. I apologise for the inconvenience. It’s sad that a small minority of inconsiderate and irrational individuals can spoil the Internet for everyone else.

The above title is borrowed from this post of Jonathan Pearce’s at Samizdata. Apparently David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, wants to make it more likely that juries will be told of defendants’ previous convictions.
From the country which gave the world the idea of Common Law, comes yet another assault on it. Is there no time-honoured [...]

Good editorial in the Telegraph today about how the awful state of Britain’s laws on self-defence is supporting and sustaining crime.
The law as it stands puts the home-owner defending his property and the burglar violating it on exactly the same footing: anyone who, in the course of defending his home, kills or injures the criminal [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how many leftists believe that right-wing news outlets like Fox News, the Times, the Telegraph et cetera are “biased,” whereas left-wing ones like the BBC and the Guardian are paragons of impartiality. If you believe that, just read this. That a mainstream British newspaper printed it is an absolute [...]

Excellent and important article in The Business Online on Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. It details how he bribed and corrupted well-connected people through the UN’s Oil-for-Food programme (which I wrote about here). It also describes his paranoia and his desire to attack his neighbours. The article restores some sanity to the debate over the [...]

One of the methods many modern intellectuals use to get their false ideas accepted by the general public is through the destruction of concepts.
The anti-capitalist left is especially good at this. If you want people to hate capitalism, one of the best ways to do it is to speak as if there is no such [...]

The debate within Objectivist circles over whom to support in the forthcoming Presidential election has taken a new twist: Harry Binswanger, director of the Objectivist Academic Center, has endorsed Bush.
(I previously wrote about this subject here.)
I’m starting to agree with him. I see both Bush and Kerry as very bad candidates, but Kerry seems to [...]

It seems that I link to Robert Spencer almost every day now, but he keeps writing interesting things; besides, what he writes about has been in my thoughts a lot recently.
Here is yet another well-considered post which serves as a summary of Spencer’s position, as well as exploring the possibility of reform within Islam. It [...]