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Star Parker has another column addressing the situation in New Orleans. Here is her position on the President?s address:I didn't find much in President Bush's Katrina speech that surprised me. His recovery plan carries the characteristic stamp of this administration....

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.

State, mine officials sign Homestake pact

Plans are moving ahead for conversion of the Homestake mine in the SD Black Hills to an underground laboratory. The mine is one of two sites being considered by the National Science Foundation for setting up a deep underground research lab. For the Homestate, this would be at around 7400 feet below ground. The mine is 8000 feet deep.

While the NSF plans are still pending, SD Gov. Mike Rounds is pursuing plans for a state-financed lab to be started sooner at the 4800 foot level. In addition to being a research asset in its own right, this would also give Homestake a leg up in the NSF selection process.

The agreement with the mining company opens the way for the state to complete financing and to start to implement plans for the intermediate level lab.

A good move for the state.

In spite of the intentional lack of content in Judge Roberts's confirmation hearings, he did provide a clear answer to the most fundamental question about his judicial philosophy. Liberals want a justice who cares. Conservatives want a justice who is...

The Husker game on Saturday drove Brent Musburger to drink. Unfortunately, he was riding in a car leaving the stadium while doing it. ABC Sports broadcaster Brent Musburger was ticketed Saturday after police caught him with an open container of...

Joe Knippenberg at No Left Turns directs us to this fine piece by Robert George on the so-called right to privacy. There is no doubt that the Constitution protects kinds of privacy rights, but it is another thing altogether to...

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...

I received this email on an issue that I don?t believe gets enough attention:As the Congress currently reviews some of the provisions in the Patriot Act that are up for consideration again, I would like your blogs to address this...

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