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It's time to play Referral Log Detective: I love looking at my referral logs, seeing what goofy searches bring people to my humble blog. It's also fun trying to divine a reader's identity from the IP address and referral page. I once noticed that someone from the the University of Tennessee had come to my page from a blogdex entry to one of Instapundit.com's posts. Could it have been the good professor himself? That will have to remain a mystery but I noticed another interesting referral from yesterday. Someone from the St. Petersburg Times came here via a search for St. Pete columnist Robyn Blumner. Hmm, could it have been Ms. Blumner doing a google search on herself?

:: 5:55 PM ::
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In "The Houdini Award", Thomas Sowell weighs in on the hijinks surrounding the U.S. Senate race in New Jersey.

:: 8:02 PM ::
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Jacob Sullum wonders "how will Saddam react to a U.S. attack?" in "Desperate Measures".

:: 7:18 AM ::
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Missed this from a few days ago: James Bovard puts in his two cents on war with Iraq in "Moral high ground not won on battlefield".

:: 6:52 PM ::
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Steve Chapman comes out against jury nullification in "Empowering juries and weakening democracy".

:: 6:03 PM ::
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Cathy Young discusses today's scheduled execution of Aileen Wuornos and asks, "why aren't women clamoring for the right to be killed by the state?" in "Lethal Injection Gender Gap":

Women commit about 10 percent of all murders in the United States, yet receive only about 2 percent of the death sentences and account for about 1 percent of death-row inmates, since their sentences are more often commuted or reversed. Yet the debate about the unfair application of the death penalty in America has focused almost exclusively on disparities of race and class, while virtually ignoring gender.

Young points out typical left-wing thought processes at work:

Interestingly, Wuornos now says that her claims of self-defense were a lie and that she killed out of hate and greed. But that's unlikely to change any minds. Carla Lucero, author of the opera Wuornos, has said that Wuornos's desire to be executed is merely a powerless woman's attempt to control her destiny. So when a woman takes full responsibility for her actions, she is not to be believed.

Naturally, no one can understand their own actions, only analysis by liberal loonies can reveal the truth.

:: 7:18 AM ::
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Wendy McElroy discusses recent events in California in "State Legislation Protects Abortion Rights" and points out that "[t]he abortion debate is already the most bitter and divisive single issue in North American politics. The conflict is about to be ratcheted up a notch or two."

:: 11:29 AM ::
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Good news: "Supreme Court Denies Stay in New Jersey Senate Race". I think the NJ Supreme Court is either corrupt or stupid but that's no reason for the Feds to step in.

:: 11:24 AM ::
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I didn't bother watching POTUS speak tonight, but Ivan Eland did and he says that "President Bush's Case for Attack on Iraq Is Weak".

:: 11:13 PM ::
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Got my Canon G2 today. I've been playing with it for the past couple of hours. If you're expecting me to post nude pictures of myself, don't hold your breath. Here's my favorite picture so far:

:: 11:06 PM ::
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Dave Kopel, a lifelong Democrat, says that New Jersey is "The Banana State" and the silly notion that the Democratic Party can cancel the November Sentate election if SCOTUS doesn't rule their way proves him exactly right.

:: 11:26 AM ::
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I saw Red Dragon this weekend. I liked it and would rate it two stars/worth seeing. There were a couple of things that bugged me about and one that drove me nuts. The thing that drove me nuts was actually in the trailer, not the movie itself. There is a scene in the trailer that, as far as I can recall, doesn't even appear in the movie, but that's not what bugs me. What bugs me is that the scene in question gives away a key plot point in the movie, ruining it for anyone who is sharp and hasn't read the book. What genius at the studio approves the trailer and why doesn't the director or the producer complain?

:: 11:21 AM ::
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Robyn Blumner writes about a recent lawsuit by the Center for Individual Rights against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in "Discrimination in federal hiring now works against white males".

:: 9:31 PM ::
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Discriminations points to this Foxnews.com story,"Voters File Suit to Invalidate McKinney Election", that seems only natural after what went down in New Jersey.

:: 9:34 AM ::
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