I’ve talked before about how badly we’ve muddled up the growing-up process in the United States, but I never looked at it from the parents’ perspective. Glenn Reynolds at TCS Daily, however, did the work for me.
Revisionist History: Antiwar Myths About Iraq, Debunked
Peter Wehner catalogues and debunks many of the myths spouted by the antiwar left. Whether you agree or disagree with the war in Iraq, I encourage you to give it a serious read. There are fair arguments to be made against the war, but many of those made in popular discourse are baseless. Maybe reading this article will help the war critics to strengthen their arguments by not basing them on these fictions.
Getting Stuff Done; Professional Cert.; Anniversary Coming Up
Well, things are going reasonably well of late. I’ve been trying to get a lot of things out of the way that I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
An Open Letter to Ofc. Graham Buck
(A paper copy of this letter was sent on May 20, 2006. Any response will be published below when received. You may also wish to read a related opinion piece.)
The Right Call on Phone Records
Following recent news (first reported in USA Today) that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting some phone records, only Richard A. Falkenrath seems to be talking any sense. His article, which appeared in this morning’s edition of the Post, is a clear explanation of the program, why it’s necessary, and why it is almost certainly legal—despite a lot of congressional blather to the contrary.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.