Lots to say today, on the anniversary of 9/11. Please look at this column by
Timothy Lynch at Cato, which has detailed all the rights you've had stripped away by the so-called "Patriot Act". Our representative voted against it, but our senator, like every single one save Russ Feingold, voted for it. As was reported in many news sources, none of them read it first. If you feel inconvenienced at the airport, be glad if that's all that happens to you. Hope your name isn't Haddad.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking
duo in Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal
prison and fined $20,000 on Thursday for selling bongs and other drug
paraphernalia over the Internet.

That's where your tax dollars are going, to arrest dangerous people like Tommy Chong. Of course, Ashcroft also likes to persecute sick people who use cannabis legally to treat cancer, consistent with the laws of California. At least we can still drink---and we're going to want to.

Yesterday I read "The Rage and The Pride" by Orianna Fallaci. Well worth buying, it tells the story of 9/11 not just from the viewpoint of a New York resident, but the long view over time of a journalist who has witnessed crimes of the islamofascists up close for many years, in many lands. Pretty shocking in places. No punches pulled, you'll have a hard time forgetting this one, and you should. The war against these people is going to go on for quite a while.