May
27
Yesterday, President Obama announced that he had chosen Sonia Sotomayor as his first selection to the U.S. Supreme Court. In her short statement, one sentence stood out. This one statement should be enough to eliminate anyone from a court appointment. But beyond this, it should reveal that government has no moral right to exist and [...]
May
26
Word Cloud for Forrest Paper
May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A long time ago, I posted the paper I wrote on Nathan Bedford Forrest and his monument in Memphis. Then I ran across Wordle, a website that generates word clouds from text you give it. Since I have a strange obsession with word clouds I had to give it a try. An here’s the result.
May
19
Theme Song for Worldwide Intelligence Updates
May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Those Pentagon Worldwide Intelligence Updates need a theme song to go along with the biblical quotes.
May
18
Suggestions to Improve Pentagon Daily Reports
May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that daily briefings for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other senior officials included biblical quotes. Some of these covers sheets can be seen on the GQ magazine website. The placement of these biblical quotes on the daily reports seem to be an effort to justify the Iraq war from [...]
May
15
Free Speech Further Defined and Limited
May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The name of this blog is Make No Laws. Voltairine de Cleyre said, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license”; and [...]
May
14
Disposable People
May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
To the government and business owners, people are just interchangable parts that are to be used up and turned over as quickly and cheaply as possible. In Raleigh, NC Theresa Fenner spent 25 years working at a local bowling alley serving customers at the bar. When new owners took over the bowling alley last year, [...]
May
6
There have been a few cases since the election of President Obama where state and local government officials have been fired for sending racist email messages. Now add North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Charimain Doug Fox to the list. (Just Google “obama white house watermelon email” and see how many results you get) This [...]