Or so says the lead editorial from Friday’s Wall Street Journal:
”Since the Treasury story broke, as it happens, no one but Congressman Ed Markey and a few cranks have even objected to the program, much less claimed illegality.”
That’s funny, I could have sworn it was the Wall Street Journal who did the most to expose [...]
Excerpts from “Roads to somewhere,” The Economist
…[H]ighways began expanding rapidly after President Dwight Eisenhower, 50 years ago this month, signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 which committed the government to invest heavily in a national network of interstates.
…[T]he network that he authorised was often referred to as the National System of Interstate and Defense [...]
Christopher Hitchens’ pathetic decline picks up speed. (By the way, this recent cry for attention aided Eros about as much as Hitchens’ following non sequiturs should help Ares.)
[M]ay I propose some ways in which those who don’t want to be associated with Michael Moore, George Galloway, Ramsey Clark, and the rest of the Zarqawi and [...]
In an odd turnabout, some Democratic “antiwar” politicians are explaining their vote against the recent “stay the course” resolution passed by Congress on the grounds that it means supporting amnesty for insurgents. “I support our troops and goals in Iraq,” says Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford, Jr., currently a congressman and a candidate for U.S. Senate, [...]
Scott P. Richert has more on the WMD non-story, and why Sen. Santorum may be so hot for it. Arthur Silber writes to remind me that the WMD matter is largely irrelevant, and I agree, but it’s always good to remind people how dishonest – and ridiculously so – the warbots are.
The Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy held a forum on Wednesday: “The Right Against War with Iran.”
Videos of the event speakers are now available on The Free Liberal website. The speakers included:
Ivan ElandIndependent Institute, Antiwar.com Columnist“The United States Might Have to Accept a Nuclear Iran”
Philip GiraldiFormer CIA officer, partner in Cannistraro Associates“Iran: Same [...]
Why Rick Santorum’s announcement of an Iraq WMD discovery should be taken as seriously as… well, everything Rick Santorum says. Clark Stooksbury has more.
President Bush:
“The lesson of the Hungarian experience is clear. Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.”
Bela Liptak:
“In 1956, in Hungary, the Soviets called us terrorists while the West called us freedom fighters. During that Hungarian uprising, the Soviets claimed that our Molotov cocktails were the cause (and not the consequence) of their occupation.”
William Perry calls for violence from the pages of Thursday’s Washington Post:
“Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil? We believe not. The Bush administration has unwisely ballyhooed the doctrine of “preemption,” which [...]
Gene Healy shares the deep thoughts of the thinking man’s Glenn Reynolds.
The neoconservatives have issued their own statement on immigration, supporting pending Congressional legislation for militarization of the borders using federal troops for “border enforcement, and interior enforcement (employer sanctions).” The letter is signed by 39 “prominent conservatives and civic leaders,” such as the unapologetically pro-war William Bennett, Frank Gaffney, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Michael Ledeen, [...]
This Wednesday, June 21, the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy Presents “Right Against War with Iran.”
Ivan ElandIndependent Institute, Antiwar.com Columnist“The United States Might Have to Accept a Nuclear Iran”
Philip GiraldiFormer CIA officer, partner in Cannistraro Associates“Iran: Same Bad Intelligence, Same Catastrophic Results”
Doug BandowLiberty Coalition and Antiwar.com columnist“Another War: Another Attack on Civil Liberties”
Charles PeñaCoalition [...]
