[jodorowsky]

The airline cabin is the most advanced model of the modern social-democratic state, the rarefied version of trends that, on the ground, progress more slowly.

[dirtboy]

bump for another Steyn classic

[jodorowsky]

The excellent Kopel column Steyn refers to has been posted here on FR.

[WIMom]

As many of you know, I help with the FreeRepublic fundraisers. It is not always easy or fun sitting at a computer for hours and hours monitoring those threads. Everyone who work the threads VOLUNTEERS to do so. We spend days and weeks helping to keep FreeRepublic running.

Ask yourself these questions:

Where is the first place I go to get my news?
Am I getting any benefit from FreeRepublic?
Am I learning from FreeRepublic?

FreeRepublic is not free. It costs Jim Robinson tens of thousands of dollars to keep this forum running. There are over 60,000 registered users on FreeRepublic and only 1,000 help keep this forum running. Those who do not have the ability to donate money could help by bumping the threads once in a while. Those who who do should be ashamed of yourselves. You are a FReeploader.

Go ahead, flame me. I don't care. I contribute to FreeRepublic, and I for one do not want to see this forum dead.

If everyone who registered donated one measly dollar a month, we would never have to have a fundraiser again.

Donate Here by Secure Server

Or Mail your check to:

FreeRepublic , LLC
PO BOX 9771
FRESNO, CA 93794


To donate By Paypal:

Send PayPal direct to JimRob@psnw.com

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Mark Steyn is a clear thinker, and a great writer. In this crisis he has been one of the "pundits" worth reading (along with Fred Reed, Ann Coulter, even-gasp!- Lance Morrow!).

I have been saying essentially the same thing about "airport security" (that very unfunny joke on the traveling public) for about 15 years. The idea that doing MORE OF THE SAME is going to make a difference is ludicrous.

But, of course, allowing anyone but a duly authorized Federal Agent to be armed on a commercial airliner would be unthinkable, wouldn't it? I mean, someone could get hurt.

Anyway, the next terrorist outrage will not be following this same script. These people are evil, but they are NOT stupid.

Use your own imagination, but I personally am not planning to visit San Francisco or Los Angeles again for the duration of the war. (Unless I am ordered there).

[Kermit]

"Ms. Garvey is a Clinton appointee, Mr. Mineta a Bush one. It's not a left/right thing,... "

Wrong! Mineta is the only Democrat in Bush's Cabinet and was in Clinton's Cabinet. It's the usual left/left thing.

[Rodney King]

What a great essay!