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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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Shot Heard Round the World
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian terrorist who arguably did more damage to America in the long run than the September 11th hijackers when he shot Democratic Presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy in 1968, had his appeal rejected by the Supreme Court earlier today. No one knows for sure how things would have turned out, but had Kennedy successfully won the nomination, he likely would have defeated Richard Nixon in the general election, brought the Vietnam conflict to an early conclusion, continued and expanded President Johnson's Great Society programs, and spared us all Watergate, the Supreme Courts of Burger and Rehnquist, and the policies of Henry Kissinger. Even had Kennedy not won, his presence on the political scene would have bolstered the American left, which even today feels his loss. Sirhan richly deserves his sentence for the thirty-five years and counting that he's made America serve because of his act.
11:43:28 AM 
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Emma Goldman Still Causing Trouble
Anarchist Emma Goldman, who died in 1940, is still capable of stirring up trouble, according to this report from the New York Times (via the Seattle P-I). Apparently some folks at the University of California at Berkeley, where Goldman's papers are deposited, are trying to raise funds for their project. Their use of a few choice quotes - calling on people "not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them" for example - ran afoul of University administrators, who quashed their direct mail appeal. This is Berkeley we're talking about here, not Bob Jones University. George Strait, the vice chancellor acting as media flak for this story, insists that there is no "free speech issue." I wonder what Emma would have to say about that.
8:49:05 AM
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