It’s a Conspiracy
From Cox and Forkum:
Bush’s Moral Relativism
Writes David Holcberg of the Ayn Rand Institute:After this week's suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus that killed at least sixteen and wounded many more, it is worth asking again: How many more Israelis have to be murdered before President Bush wakes up to the reality that only a total war against Palestinian terrorists will stop these attacks?
President Bush should stop acting as if the Israeli government and the Palestinian regime were morally equal. The Israeli government represents a free country, which protects (to a large extent) the individual rights of its citizens, and acts only in self-defense to eliminate the terrorists that threaten its people. The Palestinian regime, in sharp contrast, is a collection of terrorists and supporters of terrorism put together by the father of international terrorism, Yasir Arafat; it's a regime that has no respect for the individual rights of its own people, and whose main goal is the destruction of Israel.
Thus the road map President Bush is trying--and succeeding--to shove down Israel's throat was doomed to failure from the start. It is past time for President Bush to abandon such misguided moral relativism and choose sides: he is either with Israel or with the terrorists.
Attacks on Martha Stewart a Moral Abomination
Writes Professor Harry Binswanger on the government's assault on Martha Stewart:"Martha Stewart is being attacked out of hatred of the good for being the good. She is being made an example of--which is the utilitarian theory of justice--because she is 'too perfect.' Note that she was not charged with insider trading--the government doesn't have evidence to support that. Nor is she being charged with perjury: she made no testimony under oath. Essentially, she is being charged with protesting her innocence! Such protests, the government claims, is "stock manipulation." They claim that proclaiming her innocence constituted wrongly trying to keep her own stock in her own company from falling--by denying the unprovable government assertions!" [June 10, 2003, HBL]
Arafat is non-Arafat
From today's lead NY Sun editorial:Something is wrong with a process in which President Bush's spokesman is insisting to the American people that, as far as President Bush is concerned, Yasser Arafat is not involved--while at the same time, Mr. Abbas is telling the Palestinian Arab people that Mr. Arafat is involved. This is a simple question of checkable fact, after all. Either Mr. Arafat is involved or he is not. The reality of his involvement shouldn't depend on whether you're George W. Bush or Mahmoud Abbas.... If the White House is willing to turn a blind eye to Mr. Arafat's involvement, who is to say that it won't turn a blind eye to terrorist activity by the "new" Palestinian leadership? [June 10, 2003, NY Sun]
Any Country But Israel…
From the June 10 NY Sun:[Kofi] Annan was "deeply concerned over reports of widespread violence, injuries suffered by the civilian population and looting," said his spokesman, Fred Eckhardt, who also reiterated Mr. Annan's "firm condemnation of any attempt to change the government of any country by force or by other unconstitutional means." [June 10, 2003, NY Sun]
Any country?
Martha Stewart Witch Hunt will Blow Up in Government’s Face
From MSN Money:At her Web site, Stewart and her lawyers adamantly deny wrongdoing on her part....She claims she was simply responding to a call from her stockbroker when she sold shares of biotech company ImClone right before news on a setback in approval of a cancer drug sent the company's shares reeling. "I am confident I will be exonerated of these baseless charges, but a trial unfortunately won't take place for months," Stewart writes.
At least one fund manager who holds shares in the company uses some compelling logic to reach the same conclusion. "Everyone knows (that) if she settles the stock goes up," says the fund manager. "Since she owns 30 million shares, the amount she would make on the stock going up would be far more than any penalties she would have to pay. But this woman is not settling because she believes she did nothing wrong. I think this is going to blow up in the government's face."
Good thing the fund manager remained unnamed in the story--we wouldn't want him investigated for speaking against the government.