This week in Enter Stage Right

What gives America the right to attack Iraq? It's simple...: Many people say that the U.S. has no justification to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein. Steven C. Den Beste responds that if it's justification you want, it's justification he'll give you

Create another Hoover Commission: If you want to hold the line on federal spending during the upcoming budget wrangling, Bruce Walker says you should look to the past with the Hoover Commission. He even has some suggestions as to who should sit on its sequel

The lone stranger: Emmy Award nominated actor Michael Moriarty tells a story that he knows all too well. Not long ago he lived it outside of a bar in Canada

The endgame for militant Islam: Steve Martinovich finds Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam to be a remarkable look into the world of militant Islam

The Iranian street: There are Iranians who are publicly protesting their desire for freedom and their friendship with the United States. Joseph Kellard says it's time the US put its money where its mouth is and throw their support behind them

August attacks from al-Qaida: That's the word from some: Ah, August. Hot, muggy weather. Politicians home for the summer. Quiet time on the beach. Oh yeah, and a possible terrorist this month courtesy of Osama bin Laden. Jeremy Reynalds fills us in

Sex, controversy and the Bible: The Same Sex Controversy: Defending and Clarifying the Bible's Message About Homosexuality won't end the battle over homosexuality in and out of the Christian church but W. James Antle III is impressed nonetheless

Practicing intellectual virtue: In this era of mudslinging and venom Wendy McElroy would like to reintroduce an old concept: Intellectual Virtues. Let's bring back civility to our public debates

Why is talk radio conservative?: Why is talk radio dominated by conservatives? Charles A. Morse says the answer is very simple. Americans listen to what reflects their belief system

Echoes of "Fahrenheit 451" haunt England: In England, writes Dr. Michael S. Brown, firearms make their proponents the targets of choice for society

Professor Katharine Butler's treatise on redistricting: Robert S. Sargent Jr. says if you're interested in redistricting, reading Professor Katharine Inglis Butler's recent article in the Richmond Law Review is a very good idea

Internet censorship: Will it become America's newest import?: Christopher Kilmer calls on his fellow Americans to oppose international efforts to impose censorship on the Internet. Oh yeah, and he once ran a web site devoted to bashing Fiona Apple. We don't know which idea we like more

Surrendering our privacy from cradle to grave: Since he's born, Doug Patton figures there are a lot of federal and state files with information about him out there

Israel's greatest enemy: American Jews: Stephen A. McDonald believes that the biggest threat facing Israel may not be the renewed Intifada, but rather Jews living in America

Palestinians have given up right to have US support: Basic legal theory, explains attorney Steven Zak, shows that the Palestinians should no longer have any expectation of support from the United States

The Green Party: Targeting capitalism: Many believe that the Green Party simply promotes environmentalism. The fact of the matter, as Alan Caruba easily illustrates, is that the platform of the Green Party is more Soviet Russia than Sierra Club

Hold tight the reins: Henry Lamb says it's time for Americans to begin making their voices heard when their government embarks on schemes that values the environment over human life and concerns

Decriminalization not the answer to marijuana issue: Michael Cust says the recent announcement by Canadian Justice Minister Martin Cauchon that he's thinking about decriminalizing marijuana is the wrong approach

Child Support Enforcement Act substitutes political grandstanding for leadership: Legislation recently introduced in order to pry money out of delinquent parents, writes Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson, is misguided at best and built on a foundation of illusions

Judged, but by whose standard?: Free Congress Foundation boss Paul M. Weyrich says he wishes the people over at the Weekly Standard would stop taking shots at him. All he did was tell Bill Kristol to shut up once

Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear

Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada

How conservative is President Bush?: There's been a lot of argument lately about whether George W. Bush is chip off the old block. Is he is just the continuation of his father's presidency?

A blog is a weblog, or an on-line diary that anyone can read. There is software to connect bloggers to a server and there are websites for blogs. It was and is still a promising technology, but too often bloggers read like they were cut from the same dough with a cookie cutter. They cite and link to each other so often that it becomes a closed system, rather than opening up the media as was the original promise of the technology. andrewsullivan.com is the best known and maybe the best of the bloggers.

BTW, Wendy McElroy's column at ESR on the intellectual virtues is worth a look.

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