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The Vikings release the plans for a new stadium. I suggest the name The Vomitorium. At least that would be truth in advertising. Now the Vikings can stink in style....

The U.N.'s terrorism gap

The feckless usefulness of the UN once again is apparent as it failed agin to come to any agreement on condemning terrorism. The opposition came primarily from the 56 OIC (Organization of Isalmic Countries)members...surprise, surprise, surprise! Who woulda ever thunk it!

A proposed U.N. convention against terrorism has been stalled since 1997. The holdup? How to define terrorism. But this is nothing more than a semantic trick. The Islamic states insist that terrorism must be defined not by the nature of the act but by its purpose. Putting a bomb in a market or train or bus is not an act of terrorism, they say, if it is done for a righteous purpose; namely national liberation or resistance to occupation. To say there is a problem of definition is to focus on a word. The real question is whether it is ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants. For the Islamic states, the answer is yes.(Emphasis added)

Not only did the OIC oppose any meaningful definition of terrorism, it proposed changing the resolution to approve attacks, but it sought a refaffirmation of language in a 1970 resolution: "reaffirm[ing] ? the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal."

The final phrase is euphemistic language included to implicitly approve terrorism. In the current action, the US claimed a partial victory by stopping such a reaffirmation.

If this is the best that can be hoped for from the UN, then we would be well served to bail out, and then to send them all packing off to Geneva or somewhere, anywhere away from the U.S.

Gannett/USA Today, owner of the Argus Leader and a Daschle supporter, is cheering for the demise of Ellsworth:By the end of next week, President Bush has to decide what to do with a list of military base closings and realignments...

Within hours of my last post the Washington Post has adopted my position: that a Supreme Court nominee who is well qualified and not a radical should be confirmed by the Senate, regardless of whether that nominee leans to the...

From NewsMax: Newly appointed House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King is blasting the media for slanting its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster to turn public opinion against President Bush. Asked why President Clinton wasn't blamed for natural disasters...

ESPN has a marvelous story about former Steeler wide receiver Lynn Swan's potential run for governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican....

Outcome of Vote Still Pending

There's been a fair amount of coverage of this, but the Chief's impression is that it isn't a very high level on the American interest meter.

Daily Demarche comments on this, with some reflections that seem to parallel the above. Since he is from the diplo-world, the Chief thinks that thee is some credibility there. He makes about as much sense out of the situation over there as anyone else could, with some suitable pithy comments comparing the situation to Florida in 2000.

It would be nice to see Schoder lose - but if not, things won't get any worse than they already are. Deutschland uber alles? Nein!

We have been discussing the umpire analogy used by John Roberts on Monday, and the take on the analogy by the folks at Volokh. Imagine everyone's surprise when Sen. John Cornyn referenced the Volokh blog (albeit without attribution) in his...

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