Category Archives: Politics

Able Danger, Databases, and the Right to Privacy

While I was reading up on the Able Danger controversy this morning, I ran across some side information on a recurring theme of mine. I want to bring this to the attention of my readers: From the CNN interview of Colenel Shaffer What I did was I married the land information warfare activity, LIMA, at …

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Let us Disagree Without Being Disagreeable

Scott Kirwin of Dean’s World directs us to Harry Stein column in City Journal, and then amplifies on one aspect, saying that he, too has a mixed marriage, and that it works very well and helps make him and his wife better people. He quotes Gerald Ford, “We can disagree without being disagreeable.” First off, …

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Two Things That Have Nothing To Do With Each Other

This really ticks me off. It happens that I agree with them that space is the better long term investment. I think a permanent presence in orbit and in the Asteroid Belt is likely to be one of the best things we can do for ourselves technologically and industrially (Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud can come later). …

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Islam, Historical Christianity, and Reform

Done With Mirrors had a post that gave me the idea for this, and alerted me to an excellent article illuminating the subject at Donklephant I want to compare and contrast the history of Islam with that of Christianity. Christianity was founded in a time of a strong civilization and empire. At the time of …

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