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THE AGE OF WHITE GUILT • FOCUS ON DIVERSITY • SEX & THE CITY The Portland Spectator FEBRUARY 2003 Why Greed is Good FEBRUARY 2003 MISSION STATEMENT The purpose of the Portland Spectator is to provide the students, faculty, and staff with the alternative viewpoint to the left-wing mentality forced upon all at Portland State University. The Portland Spectator is concerned with the defense LIFE LIBERTY PROPERTY and advancement of the ideals under which our great Republic was founded. Our viewpoint originates from the following principles: Editor-in-Chief Individual Liberty Napoleon Linardatos Limited Government Managing Editor Free Market Economy and Free Trade Joey Coon The Rule of Law Senior Editor Shahriyar Smith The Portland Spectator is published by the Portland State University Copy Editor Publication Board; and is staffed solely by volunteer editors and writers. 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Submission constitutes tes- Contact Information timony as to the accuracy. -Each person limited to 3 copies Email: Address: Location: Telephone: -Copyright © 2003 The Portland Spectator. All [email protected] Smith Memorial 503.725.9795 rights reserved. The Portland Spectator Center S-28 Tips: PO Box 347, Portland (sub-basement) Office Hours: [email protected] OR 97207 Monday 1pm-5pm Tuesday 1pm-3pm Web Site: portlandspectator.com 2 portlandspectator.com The Portland Spectator FEBRUARY 2003 CONTENTS February 2002 • Volume 2 • Issue 5 Departments 4 Parenthesis 6 Editorial 29 Pro & Con 30 Letters 31 Healthy Body Sick Mind 32 Back Page Satire Articles 7 Focus on the Left JUSTICE MCPHERSON 8 Free Speech Zones DAN MIKHNO 9 Transcending Racism SHAHRIYAR SMITH 10 The Trouble with North Korea MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI 11 Back to the Future NAPOLEON LINARDATOS 12 The Age of White Guilt SHELBY STEELE 16 Why Greed is Good JOEY COON Fiction 25 Concrete and Glass P. L. CARRICO Books & Arts 26 Sex & the City S. J. CAMPBELL 27 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? S. J. CAMPBELL 28 Let Freedom Ring SETH HATMAKER Sex & the City Are the women of Sex and the City examples of liberation or simply manifestations of a male wet dream? BY S. J. CAMPBELL page 26 portlandspectator.com The Portland Spectator portlandspectator.com 3 FEBRUARY 2003 PARENTHESIS The before crime arrest Virginia- Fairfax County police recently A LEFTIST VISITS IRAQ arrested nine people charged with “pub- Who, you may be asking incredulously, would want their country to be bombed? lic drunkenness,” in what officials What would make people want to risk their children being blown to pieces? I describe as an operation to discourage thought this too until, last October, I spent a month as a journalist seeing the real- crime before it occurs. Were those tar- ity of life under Saddam Hussein. geted running amuck on the streets or Strangely, it's the small details which remain in the memory, even now, three slouching behind the wheel of a car? months later. It's the pale, sickly look that would come over people's faces when I No, those forced to prove their sobriety mentioned Saddam. It's the fact that the Marsh Arabs - a proud, independent peo- were patrons in privately owned bars, ple who have seen their marshes drained and been "relocated" to tiny desert most of which were seated quietly, shacks - are forced to hang a small, menacing picture of Saddam in their new enjoying drinks. "homes". It's the child wearing a T-shirt saying "Yes, yes, yes to Daddy Saddam” - Johann HarI, The Times of London, January 18 2003 Moral relativism down under North Queensland, Australia- According to a 15 year old girl, an THE POLITICS OF TAX-CUTS Aboriginal man by the name of Jackie Pascoe Jamilmira knocked her to the This emphasis on the investor class dove- ground, put his foot on her neck and tails with the politics of Bush's reelection. raped her. The girl’s parents had He cares about how the economy will look to “promised” her as a wife to the man at voters in 2004, not today. her birth, in exchange for a portion of If the dividend tax cut has any impact on Pascoe’s regular government allowance. the markets and consumption, it won't be A state judge defended the man’s right until next year, when Bush is campaigning. to have sex with an underage girl as a Bush is also trying to appeal to the two- 40,000 year old “Aboriginal custom,” thirds of voters who own stocks. and ruled that the girl “knew what was The Democrats failed to capitalize on the expected of her” and “didn’t need pro- bear market in the last election, and Bush tection.” Pascoe was given a nominal wants to put them on the defensive about an 24-hour sentence on appeal. issue supposedly dear to investors. "They are all getting locked in as enemies of the investor class," says one Republican strate- Aiport antics gist. Penn Jillette, in the most recent issue And whereas in the 1970s and 1980s unem- of Regulation: ployment and inflation were the key indica- [Dean Cameron] is one of the funniest tors of economic performance to the public, people I’ve ever met and, on top of that, the White House has come to believe that he came up with the perfect piece of the stock market is now the key barometer. political performance art that you "There is a new number, and it is wealth," should try yourself the next time you fly. says Norquist. If the economy cooperates He had the Bill of Rights printed on with these politics, the White House will have invested well. pieces of metal the size of playing cards, and he sells them on his website, - Ryan Lizza, The New Republic, January 20 2003 www.securityedition.com. Get it? When you carry one through the airport security, you set off the pig’s wand. “Do you have any metal in this pocket?” PURE POETRY - KORTUM ON THE STUDENT SENATE “Oh yes, it’s my constitutional rights. ...a self-serving, whining, back-stabbing, posturing, nothing-gets-done, rule- Here you go, take them.” breaking, disrespecting, boo-hoo bitch fest. - Ira Kortum, The Daily Vanguard, January 17, 2003 4 portlandspectator.com The Portland Spectator FEBRUARY 2003 Putting Oregon Frist ERSON OF THE EAR The recent elevation of Bill Frist to PSU P Y Senate majority leader is good news for Last year's Miss America, Katie Harman, Oregon. It turns out that Senator was selected to be the 2002 graduation Gordon Smith and majority leader Frist keynote speaker.