From a good read in today's New York Times by John Tierney:The Crow Indians rode with Custer at Little Bighorn, but they have since reconsidered. On the anniversary of the battle Saturday, they cheered during a re-enactment when Indians drove a stake through his...
So Dubya's giving a prime-time address tomorrow, and from all indications, he won't be saying anything new. Rah-rah troops, yay democracy, boo terrorists, stay the course – we all know it like the Pledge of Allegiance by now. One should never underestimate the mind of...
Gee, I'm so glad that we sacrificed 1,700-plus dead, thousands more horribly wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars -- for this: "Physicians have been beaten for treating female patients. Liquor salesmen have been killed. Even barbers have faced threats for...
A visual representation of the coalition deaths since the invasion of Iraq. (via ICasualties.org)
According to Arianna Huffington, this story is a load of BS. The anticlimactic ending seems to be that Cheney left the hospital under his own power after an angina attack, though it's amusing to note that the White House appears to consider this episode is worth...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who stole the 7,000 page secret history of the Viewtnam War know as the Pentagon Papers, which he leaked to the U.S. Senate and the newspapers back in 1971. In the second hour, the...
The US military is admitting to "casualties" after a car bomb attack on a Marine convoy in the "safest city in Iraq." Xinhua is claiming to have spoken to an eyewitness:An overnight roadside bomb blast struck a US military patrol in Iraq's western city of Fallujah,...
I think that I will use the following from Don Boudreaux the next time I receive a "you don't support the troops" emails: Libertarians understand in their guts that flags, anthems, marble domes and columns, fancy titles, embassies, and majoritarian-voting procedures...
Personal reasons have precluded me from doing a Balkan Express this week, but the column will return on its regular schedule next Thursday, June 30.
According to Al-Jazeera, Ayman-shouldn't he have been caught by now?-al-Zawahiri has a new tape out, and he sounds just like the conservatives on my local talk-radio station:1. Shariah Is The Only Source Of Law “This Ummah will not accept any forms of laws or...
