How do you reward someone whose efforts to gin up another war have been indefatiguable? Why, nominate them for a Nobel Peace Prize, of course.
Idiocy Times Two
The provocateur at the center of the Muhammed cartoon controversy, Flemming Rose, verifies my thesis that he is a complete idiot by declaring that his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, is seeking to publish cartoons "satirizing" .... the Holocaust. Where will they get these...
Ever Consider a Letter to the Editor?
There is no excusing the Muslim mobs who have used or threatened violence in response to the infamous Danish cartoons. Period. If that's not immediately apparent to everyone, Messrs. Cavanaugh and Parris should help out. One of the many galling aspects of this display...
Army Charges GI for Being Wounded
The last time 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. Now he is forced to pay for the "missing" body armor. The army charges soldiers for missing equipment. When medics rushed...
Richard Perle: An Honest Man, in His Own Way
What Richard Perle has learned from the Iraq war:MUNICH, Germany, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Richard Perle, a key architect of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, said on Saturday the West should not make the mistake of waiting too long to use military force if Iran comes close to...
People aren’t human if they live across water from here
From the National Review:"In between our last two posts I went to Drudge to see what was happening in the world. The lead story was about a ship disaster in the Red Sea. From the headline picture, it looked like a cruise ship. I therefore assumed that some people very...
Lie Detector Test
Here is how to know if George Bush is lying: There is an assertion coming out of his mouth:"This terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks."Now come the facts:"The National Security Agency's secret domestic spying hasn't nabbed any Al Qaeda...
Manufacturing Crisis and Leviathan
All libertarians know about Crisis and Leviathan - not just the great book by Robert Higgs, but the simple principle too: when bad things happen, government almost always benefits, and further, the "ratchet effect" makes it so that when government power grows it is...
Why We Fight – an Interview with Eugene Jarecki
Tuesday the 31st, on the KAOS Report, I talked with Eugene Jarecki, the director-producer of Why We Fight, a new documentary about Ike's warning and the misplaced power of the Military-Industrial-Complex. It begins with short clips of Eisenhower and Bill Hicks....
Snake Oil
The best response to the SOTU I've read so far is Sheldon Richman's. How any free-marketeer can stand behind that speech is beyond me. Leftists should pay attention, too: Richman's insights on energy policy deserve serious consideration by those whose rhetoric Bush...


