Jorge Hirsch writes: “Together with 12 of the nation’s most eminent physicists, I recently wrote to President Bush to tell him that to plan for the use of nuclear weapons against Iran is gravely irresponsible. We asked him to publicly take the nuclear option off the table. “President Bush has not responded. Perhaps he did [...]
This absurdity (and here’s why it’s absurd) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O’Rourke: Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. It’s a pity O’Rourke hasn’t applied that insight to the global democracy crusade…
Since you’re the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to. I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney: “Drumheller, who retired [from the CIA] last year, says the White House ignored crucial information [...]
According to the great libertarian journalist James Bovard, Americans have attention deficit disorder. Among his most disturbing conclusions is that most of us have absolutely no idea what the Bill of Rights says or means. Here’s what little I can do about that: The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time [...]
“Mindless snark.” A “cheap shot.” That’s how Glenn Reynolds and his sorority sisters have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of Reason: The Past Is Another Planet Glenn Reynolds, writing in Reason in 1999: [O]ur current situation–with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can’t keep track of them all and [...]
Jesse Walker finds a Glenn Reynolds statement from 1999 that could easily appear on Antiwar.com: [O]ur current situation – with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can’t keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential whim – would have horrified the Framers. Reynolds huffs and puffs, but Walker [...]
