For the Left, the big news of the New Hampsire primary has been greeted with an embarrassed silence. For there the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for example “Progressive” Democrats of America, failed completely to put forward a candidate for peace. This...
Antiwar.com columnist, Econlog blogger, and economics professor David Henderson appeared on John Stossel's show on the Fox Business channel last night. Henderson debated regular Fox contributor Colonel David Hunt on "war, Ron Paul's foreign policy views, Israel, 9/11,...
Clear, simple, to the point. A nice, simple set of values that all kinds of people should be able to get behind. It's the platform, manifesto, talking points, everything of No War on Iran: National Day of Action, February 4th. A lot of anti-war activities get bogged...
I yearn for the day when "I was a full-throated supporter of the Iraq War" is understood — by writer and reader alike — to be a more damning admission than "I took Ecstasy once in college."
As often happens, one brilliant post at The American Spectator's blog (via Larison) led me to another. Behold: When I arrived late at the town hall event in Meredith, he [Ron Paul] was prefacing an answer to a question about Israel by expressing admiration for Zionist...
Rolling Stone has published a new interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, conducted by Michael Hastings. Here are some notable excerpts: "From the glory days of American radicalism, which was the American Revolution, I think that Madison's view on government is...
One of the primary concerns of the U.S. Department of Defense is that America's military is permitted to span the entire globe. In a DoD paper released yesterday, the Joint Operational Access Concept was introduced as a strategy to deal with what the military calls...
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has a piece at the Daily Beast which warns not just against starting a war with Iran, but against "letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized...
Kevin Drum, the Leonidas of the left 49-yard line, predicts the ways in which a Romney presidency would differ from an Obama presidency. Drum assumes that Romney would have a Republican majority in the Senate, so this is not a best-case scenario for liberals. I...
Today is the day digital activists protest the Internet-censorship bill known as SOPA by symbolically blacking out their websites. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a megacorporate-written scheme to "protect" entertainment and media conglomerates' intellectual...
