This is a scan of an interview with John Ashcroft from a fringe political magazine called "Southern Partisan" (printed in the CSA).
A lot of the commentary is mostly harmless "I like the Confederacy" kind of stuff. What is interesting is the discussion of state's rights, and particularily the connection that he makes between that and affirmatire action. No fire here, but there is a hell of a lot of smoke.

John Ashcroft might be a racist too...

] "The most infamous of these efforts was Ronald Reagan's
] advocacy of "states' rights" — the Dixiecrat code word
] for segregation — at the Neshoba County Fair in
] Philadelphia, Miss., where 16 years earlier the murder
] of three civil rights workers made international headlines."

Concerning racism in the Republican Party.

The Ways Republicans Talk About Race

] "A spokesman for West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd said
] Monday morning that the top Senate Democrat has told him
] he never participated in lynchings, cross burnings or
] other hate crimes against African-Americans while he was
] a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s. "

Good lord! I liked Byrd's comments in the recent Iraq war hearings. The stuff mentioned in this article is clearly aweful. I had no idea. If this stuff catches wind in the major media Byrd will be history. Of course, a similar effort to oust John Ashcroft for similar reasons has yet to really get going. Ashcroft may have done a better job of covering it up.

Sen. Byrd: I Didn't Lynch and Wasn't Racist While in the Klan

] "The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is
] dedicated to helping organizations understand and improve
] the security of their web applications and web services.
] This list was created to focus government and industry on
] the most serious of these vulnerabilities."

This top ten list is particularily well done.

The Open Web Application Security Project

This is a collection of political cartoons about the Democrat's failure in the recent election. Should provide a nice segway into the nature of politics for the next two years...

DEMOCRAT DOOM!

] I’ve noticed that people’s ability to process information
] is at a much higher velocity than it used to be. In looking
] at comedy, contemporary comedy is so much faster paced than
] it was even ten years ago. Watching classic sitcoms on
] television, I’m amazed at how leisurely paced they are.

I thought this was an interesting observation...

Matt Groening Interview

] "Bell Canada recently started converting public pay
] phones in Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston into terminals
] for "Wi-Fi" Internet connections. Some U.S. phone
] companies may soon follow suit."

I previously stated here that I think that most of the POTS infrastructure will be converted into interconnections for short range wireless systems...

Fortune.com - Technology - Making Pay Phones Pay

] "iCommune is a plug-in which extends Apple's iTunes
] software to share music over the network."

iCommune

Earl Grey tea. Hot.

L25- The idea of printing a light bulb may seem
L25- bizarre, but US engineers are now
L25- developing an ink-jet printing technology
L25- to do just that. The research at the
L25- University of California in Berkeley will
L25- allow fully assembled electric and
L25- electronic gadgets to be printed...

'Gadget printer' promises industrial revolution

] Who really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?
] Iraq, North Korea, or the US?

I think the answer to this question is quite obvious regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum. I think Al'Q might beat us out though... Of course, Time's online polls are notoriously insecure. George P. Burdell won last years poll for Man of the Year. :)

TIMEeurope.com: Poll -- The Biggest Threat To Peace