Justus For All

Just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a very happy halloween.
And for you liberals, here is a very scary jack-o-lantern

On Instapundit. She analyzes the issues, including a long bit on Foreign Policy.
I pretty much agree with her analysis, except that I think going into Iraq was more important than she seems too.
Read her thoughts though.

In the comments to this post Andrew accused me of believing that there is such a thing as good and evil. Guilty as charged.
I believe that moral relativism is the great intellectual sin of our age. The idea that right and wrong are meaningless concepts can only lead to moral degradation and acquiescence [...]

These girls are hot!
And they are video game geeks! (More on them here)
How things have changed since I was a geeky teenager.
(via Smack my booty)

David Hogberg analyzes Kerry and Bush on multiple issues from a libertarian perspective.
I pretty much agree with him on most of these issues, although I am not too confident that the Republican congress would restrain government spending, which in my mind neutralizes Kerry’s advantage there. Spending money for pork has wide, bi-partisan support.
(via Instapundit)

My friend Naomi has a blog. She didn’t even tell me about it, but nothing is secret on the Internet.
Go check it out.

New Scientist.com:
Industry has dramatically cut its emissions of pollutants, called volatile organic compounds. But those cuts have been more than offset by the amount of VOCs churned out by trees.
The revelation challenges the notion that planting trees is a good way to clean up the atmosphere.
When fossil fuels used in industry and automobiles fail [...]

Channel News Asia:
Syria tested chemical weapons on civilians in Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region in June and killed dozens of people.
The German daily Die Welt newspaper, in an advance release of its Wednesday edition, citing unnamed western security sources, said that injuries apparently caused by chemical arms were found on the bodies of the [...]

Christopher Hitchens writes that Al-Zarqawi is more dangerous that Bin Laden. Read the whole thing.
He also includes this very salient point:
Until recently, it has been surprisingly easily accepted that there is scant evidence for any tie between Saddam and al-Qaeda. But it begins to look rather as if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in person and [...]

USA Today:
Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people — a surprising new human species — that paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
In fact, scientists have nicknamed the new creature “Hobbit” after the diminutive folks in the famed [...]