Paul Craig Roberts sends this post on the Iranian Oil Bourse: Readers keep asking if Bush is attacking Iran because it plans to open an oil bourse that would permit oil to trade in Euros. A number of readers mistakenly believe that this would wreck the dollar's value....
Thursday night I met a guy who, it turns out, was a soldier in town (Austin) from Ft. Hood. He was a nice chap. We chatted for a while, then when he complained about the overwhelming show of force by the local cops on their taxpayer horses, I took the opportunity - of...
Via Sibel Edmonds: February 9, 2006 Greetings, The hearing on National Security Whistleblowers by the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats & International Relations (Chairman: Christopher Shays) is set to go. The list of witnesses on three panels...
It's a fundraising week (please help!), so the highlights aren't on the front page, but don't miss David R. Henderson's latest, "Why Libertarians Should Be Critical of War."
I see my good friend Matt has a response to my latest comment on this blog concerning the Muhammed cartoon brouhaha, and I think it makes the main point of my original piece: that an atmosphere of hatred is being created in which it will seem not at all unusual or...
From Feingold's speech to the US Senate:"The President’s claims of inherent executive authority, and his assertions that the courts have approved this type of activity, are baseless. ... None of the President’s arguments explains or excuses his conduct, or the NSA’s...
Iranian newspaper: "Bwahahaha, let's see how they react when we print cartoons about the Holocaust!" Danish newspaper: "Send us those cartoons when you're done, guys. We'll publish whatever you got." Iranian newspaper: Steam comes from ears. Who are the dunces in this...
Remember back in August when Vanity Fair ran that great article about Sibel Edmonds called "An Inconvenient Patriot"? Part of the story was about how, as part of her work translating for the FBI, Sibel had overheard American Turkish Council types bragging about...
Matt opines that Flemming Rose, the provocateur who commissioned the Muhammed-is-a-terrorist cartoons, can't be accused of double-standards because he's reprinting cartoons "satirizing" the Holocaust. Not so fast, Matt: wait until he decides to visit David Irving in...
If this comes to fruition, then at least Rose can't be criticized for maintaining double standards on freedom of speech. We'll see if the same holds true for the various commentators who have hailed his decision to run the Islam cartoons. I hasten to note, however,...
