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War critics are 'miserable creatures' THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (Link to Story) November 14, 2003 Joseph Perkins 'War," wrote John Stuart Mill, one of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, "is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight," Mill continued, "is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." That brings...

Federico de Jesus owes Victor David Hanson an apology. De Jesus, a staffer for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, falsely accused Hanson, the distinguished author of the just-published book "Mexifornia," of racism and xenophobia at a recent Capitol Hill briefing. During his introduction, Hanson, a scholar of ancient Rome and Greece, was aptly described as "a classicist." De Jesus somehow interpreted that to mean that the author had a white "classist" bias against immigrants. Pelosi's aide, who somehow earned a diploma without being able to make a distinction between a classicist and a classist, got ugly with Hanson and stormed...

Some advice for Arnold http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20030815-9999_mz1e15perkin.htmlJoseph Perkins SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE August 15, 2003 Memo to Arnold Schwarzenegger: Best wishes on your California gubernatorial campaign. That was a stroke of political genius, misdirecting everyone into thinking you were not going to throw your hat in the ring, then unexpectedly announcing your candidacy on "Leno." You sure generated a lot of buzz, not only here in the Golden State, but throughout the entire country. The recall had been expected to be a low-turnout affair. But you've made it a happening. Indeed, not only are two-thirds of likely California voters ready to kick...

Exposing global warming alarmists Joseph Perkins THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNEAugust 1, 2003 Jim Inhofe is my new hero. The Oklahoma lawmaker dared this week to deliver a speech on the Senate floor in which he declared that all the scary reports about catastrophic global warming are nothing less than a hoax. "Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science," said Inhofe, who chairs the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee. "Global warming alarmists see a future plagued by catastrophic flooding, war, terrorism, economic dislocations, droughts, crop failures, mosquito-borne diseases – all caused by man-made...

JOSEPH PERKINS SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE Left-leaning professors overpopulate campuses Joseph Perkins THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE July 18, 2003 Michael Ballou couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. All he did was assign his political science students at Santa Rosa Junior College to write an e-mail and at the bottom include the words: "kill the president, kill the president." One of the professor's students sent his e-mail to the office of Napa Valley congressman Mike Thompson, which passed it on to the U.S. Capitol Police, which passed it on to the Secret Service. The Secret Service paid Ballou a recent...