- David Ellis: Lincoln Hating. Read this for some personal and historical context.
- Joshua Schachter has done a lot of neat stuff:
- Jeremy: Developers who build their own platforms and toolkits
- The Ideal CMS -- Circa 2004, via Jeff
- A Jaxen-centric tutorial on XPath (PDF), via Pankaj, via Erik.
- XPath tutorial at Zvon.org, via Pankaj
- Java Scripting: Half the Size, Half the Time, via Erik
- I've created a Java wiki page to keep track of a lot of this stuff.
- Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming [to read], via Erik
- John Hawkins: The Peril Of "Good Ideas"
- John Hawkins: Misc Commentary For Jan 15, 2004
- John Hawkins: Why Am I Supporting Bush In 2004? I'll Tell You Why.... I agree with him almost 100%, and it's a shame it's mostly about the lesser of two evils. Of course, except for the war on terror.
- John again: Wesley Clark In Quotes. Wesley Clark really does scare me. Not because I think he's got a shot at winning, but because he gives me the jeebees. He's got no core beliefs, and you can see how much he flips back and forth in what he says. But he skeeves me out for another reason, and the only way I can think to put it is that I get a feeling like he's a child molester or something. I don't actually think he molests children, but I really do get a weird feeling about that man. More. More on Clark and the rest of the Democratic candidates opinions on Iraq.
- Funny Steven Wright quotes
- Pres. Bush's Space Speech, and many reactions. More thoughts.
- The national debt has topped 7 trillion dollars
- Gibson's The Passion of Christ is debuting in February on 2000 screens. Josh thinks it's going to be huge.
- Cold.
- Howard Dean has been inconsistent (shock) in supporting action in Bosnia and not in Iraq. I've come across this before, but haven't linked anything about it. Here's part of what I've seen earlier.
- Yellowcake from Iraq?
- Wimps and Barbarians [to read], via Glenn
- Stuff about Iraq. More and more. Sorry for the lack of description. Don't let that stop you from reading it.
- Steven Den Beste has another worth-reading post.
- Text Processing in Python
- Where Blosxom and XML databases collide
- Computer Science Logo Style, via LtU
- ecos, real-time embedded OS
- Fast Servers: Events vs. Threads (PDF), via Keith
- The Market vs. God, via Keith
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In relation to your theories on limited government, I would argue that the drifting between Federalism and Republicanism is quite natural in the historical cycle. Obviously, during wartime, the powers of the central government are always enhanced in some form or another (the suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War, the Japanese interment in WWII, or the Patriot Act now are just common examples of a documented historical trend). The period of American history with possibly the strongest central government was, in fact, right after the ratification of the constitution. In an attempt to hold the fledgling nation together, Washington (with strict guidance from Hamilton) and Adams enacted some of the most Federalist policy in American history, especially during peacetime.
A side note would be that no party that controls both houses of Congress and the Executive Office will EVER fight for limited government. Or, conversely, limited government is a fantastic idea for the party who does not control it.