Will at Crescat Sententia responds to my post about his post about my post. Got that?
As Sasha Volokh points out, patriotism doesn’t always mean “my country right or wrong.” I mean, I’m glad there are lots of people who love the country so much that they’ll turn up to defend us against any assault. [...]
More About the Oath of Citizenship
Oct 30th, 2003
The Oath
Oct 29th, 2003
I first posted this on Monday, October 27, 2003. I am reposting it because Will at Crescat Sententia answered the question that I asked at the very end, How many natural born citizens would refuse to take this oath? He said that he would.
The Oath of Citizenship
Oct 27th, 2003
In order to become a naturalized citizen of this country you must take an oath. If you are born a citizen, you do not. Somehow, I think the naturalized citizens are luckier. They get to profess their allegiance.
Blogging: Linked By Sully
Oct 10th, 2003
Andrew Sullivan has kindly linked this blog. It is the blog of an accounting professional, and EMT. I tend to libertarian / conservative in my perspective on life, and consider myself a lapsed Catholic (the Church left me). I am married to a lovely woman I met on the Internet, before the World Wide Web [...]
Soccer Mom, Armed and Dangerous
Oct 9th, 2003
The Washington Post had a long article about Ms. Plame yesterday. Just another typical soccer mom, with AK-47 skills:
Plame was recruited by the agency shortly after graduation from Pennsylvania State University, sources said. She later earned two master’s degrees, one from the London School of Economics and one from the College of Europe in Bruges, [...]
The Coalition Provisional Authority has its own web site:
L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator
Opening Remarks
Press Conference 9 October 2003
Six months ago today Coalition Forces liberated Baghdad. I am sure that many of you were as thrilled as I was to see Saddam’s statue and his regime fall.
Most, but not all, of what has [...]
U.S. ArmyLt. Gen. James R. Helmly, Chief, Army Reserve, will present the Soldier’s Medal, the highest peacetime award for heroism, to Captain John Chovanes, an Army Reservist with the Army Medical Corps. The ceremony will be held today, 1 December 2003, at the Pentagon in Room 2B548 at 2 pm.In the aftermath of the attack [...]
WMD in Iraq
Oct 6th, 2003
In case you missed it in the David Kay interim report, this is the disease that OUR inspectors found that the Tikrit thugs had NEW reserch on:
New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
After an incubation [...]
SARS: Redux
Oct 3rd, 2003
Well, they’re still hashing out the last epidemic, and making correction. Free China has done the medical forensics and their numbers drop. WHO Lowers Reported SARS Cases in TaiwanBy ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press WriterTAIPEI, Taiwan – The World Health Organization (news – web sites) has drastically lowered the number of reported SARS (news – web [...]
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