Political resources

Reasons to be a Republican. And a complimentary list of candidates for the White House in ’04, scoring them based on ‘scandal points.’ I like the scandal-points system.

Some people seem to be betting against John F. Kerry because they have been unsure of his ethnicity. Apparently he had Eastern-European Jewish relatives, and everyone has been assuming he’s Irish because he has an Irish-sounding name and wants to be John F. Kennedy.

I’m surprised that this is an issue. But then again, I’m also surprised when people do things like confuse religious law for secular law. Not to say I’m immovable or perfect. I’ve been swinging more and more towards gun-ownership, on the premise that guns, like drugs, are best regulated rather than criminalized. The statement “if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns’ is, in essence, true. And nothing is made safer by placing its manufacture, distribution, and usage into the hands of organized crime.