I spent the morning over at Taki's Top Drawer, live-blogging the Iowa Republican presidential debate, hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Check it out.

Life, Liberty, Property on the Ropes, The Constitution in Exile

In Search of John Doe 2: Feds Lied About The OKC Bombing

The State Department has had enough! They see the recent sparring over the issue of whether to nuke or invade Pakistan, or to nuke Saudi Arabia, as irresponsible. (I guess making irresponsible comments on foreign policy is the private domain of the White House.) The...

It looks like Hillary Clinton is going to be able to make that "breakout" session at the YearlyKos conference after all. Whew! Wouldn't want to miss that! No doubt they'll ask her about this, and here's how I'd phrase the question: Under what possible set of...

Yet another long, pretentious pro-war, pro-Bush piece in Reason by Michael Young, this time praising the $60 billion arms deal recently announced by the Bush administration, has his readers in an uproar: this comment thread is hilarious. Libertarians are, naturally,...

I woke this morning to the news that Barack Obama, the subject of my column this morning, is having yet another tiff with Hillary Clinton, this time over the issue of whether or when to use nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Obama is saying "Never," but Hillary --...

Laissez Faire Anti-Imperialism

Iraqi Humanitarian Crisis

Mass Death in the Terror War