We went to Iraq to liberate the people of Iraq from oppression. Part of our jobs as liberators is to create and enforce some level of law and order. Part of this process is creating a local police force, part of it is acting as a police force ourselves.
Maybe You Can Explain This . . . (GMU Gibberish)
Maybe you can explain this to me.
On May 5, I—along with my fellow GMU students—received a mass email from the university president, Alan Merten. This message was an attempt to justify the additional 6.6 percent increase in tuition and fees (after 115 percent over the last four years).
Bush Pauses to Comfort Teen
I’ve been hard on President Bush about a few things (although not nearly so hard as the Democrats have been), but I do have a lot of respect for the guy. This article explains why.
Where Presidents Have No Power
This is a great column by Charles Krauthammer that appears on the back page of the May 10 issue of Time Magazine. It gets to the heart of what I’ve been saying for a long time—Presidents have virtually no control over the economy.
Windows Update: One Click Can Save a Lot of Trouble
Okay, look, I know that Windows is the operating system that most of you use. Fine. Who knew that 95 percent of the population was masochists?
But if you’re going to use Windows, please run Windows Update regularly! Microsoft periodically releases security updates and things like that which—if everybody installed them—would save everybody a lot of trouble.
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.