Eengstro on May 22nd, 2007

I’ve gotten quite bored with writing about politics, or even thinking about politics. I used to engage in political debate with gusto, and enjoyed it, but now the whole enterprise just makes me weary. Maybe it’s something to do with turning 30.
Or, maybe it’s because of the stunning incompetence of the Republican Party. With a [...]

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Eengstro on May 2nd, 2007

As a reminder, let us not forget The Three Conjectures written by Wretchard back in 2003:
Conjecture 1: Terrorism has lowered the nuclear threshold.
Summary: The nuclear threshold — the point in which we attack (or counter-attack) with nuclear weapons — is crossed when an enemy has both the capability and the intent to use nuclear weapons [...]

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Eengstro on April 24th, 2007

Some foolishness never dies. Yet again this year (on MySpace this time), I’m receiving messages from friends saying, “Don’t buy gas on May 15 (or whatever day)! It’ll hurt the oil companies! That’ll show ‘em!”

In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a [...]

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Eengstro on April 24th, 2007

What happens when a mass killer meets armed resistance? Surprise! The shooting spree ends. Of course, that shouldn’t be a surprise.

Many students heard the shots. Two who did were Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges. Mikael was outside the school having just returned to campus from lunch when he heard the shots. Tracy was inside attending [...]

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Eengstro on April 17th, 2007

An excellent op-ed from a student at Virginia Tech, which describes the frustrations gunowners have with “gun-free zones”:

Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school [...]

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Eengstro on April 16th, 2007

…yet again. Is anyone surprised that guns are illegal on the Virginia Tech campus? Since guns are illegal there, a mass shooting should never happen, right?
No one should be surprised that mass shootings are most likely to occur in places where law-abiding citizens aren’t allowed to carry weapons — places like post offices, schools, universities, [...]

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Eengstro on March 20th, 2007

I ran across this article today, which sums up the lies and selective memory of the left. Excerpts:

Yet even stipulating–which I do only for the sake of argument–that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq in the period leading up to the invasion, it defies all reason to think that Mr. Bush was lying [...]

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Eengstro on November 15th, 2006

Political correctness has essentially doomed our project in Iraq. Our efforts to claim the moral high ground by including everyone in the political process hasn’t reformed the bad guys. It has only enabled them.
Our basic mistake was to assume that political factions in Iraq were essentially the same as political factions at home: (mostly) good [...]

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Eengstro on November 8th, 2006

My own opinion about the drubbing the Republicans received last night:
It was well deserved. Was it a referendum on Iraq? Partly. But more importantly, the Republicans had abandoned their principles of limited government and fiscal discipline. Instead, they embraced pork, entitlement, and corruption. They’re now paying for it.
I just wish I could say that the [...]

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Eengstro on November 3rd, 2006

Today’s New York Times clearly admits that Saddam had the knowledge to build an atom bomb. (Original article here, via Drudge Report. Article reproduced here.)

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from [...]

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