I turn on the television. Somehow, I must have slept longer than I thought. It's already the middle of 2008 and the presidential debates are going on. The Democrat is Mike Gravel, and he's attacking the war. He is saying he wants to pull out of Iraq immediately. He...
I just now read Chris Matthew Sciabarra's note at Liberty and Power that Bill Bradford, editor of Liberty Magazine, lost his life to cancer on Thursday, December 8. He was 58. I am very sad to hear this. I had the pleasure of meeting Bill at the LP National Convention...
So all the left-liberals who thought that the nomination of Bolton to the UN would mean the death of that organization — that it would unleash the U.S. to dominate the world — should consider Bolton's latest move: opposing a bill to withhold funds to the UN. Hmmm....
Today on Scott Horton's Weekend Interview Show (6-8 Eastern), Scott will be talking with Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and hardcore opponent of the warfare state, and then with Rick Blum of OpentheGovernment.org. Listen live.
Hat Tip: The Libertarian Enterprise.
As is common with such revolutions, the democratic free-market Orange revolution in Ukraine continues to show signs of having turned sour before it began. Anders Aslund writes, "Last year Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of 12 percent; in the first four months of this...
Tom Woods brings to attention an organization callled The Antiwar League, whose mission "is to promote the creation of a new Antiwar League that unites the left and the right in principled opposition to the plans of the Republicrat Warmonger Party for perpetual war."...
Thanks a million for the plug, Matt! I just blogged at LRC a little more about the parallels between the scapegoating of the right after OKC and the scapegoating of the left after 9/11. And I agree about the parallels you mention about the demonization of the enemy at...
Thomas Woods reminds us of a forgotten quote by John Paul II: "Then there are the other social forces and ideological movements which oppose Marxism by setting up systems of 'national security,' aimed at controlling the whole of society in a systematic way, in order...
The democratic peace theory, which claims that democracies don't wage war on each other, championed by pro-censorship "freedomist" R.J. Rummel, is littered with problems, perhaps most notably its shifting of definitions to the point that "democracy" seems mainly to...
