I am finishing up a new book and am seeking suggestions for a snappy title. The book’s essays deal with the political sanction for mass killing, the fraud of idealism, how truth is perverted in Washington, why power corrupts, Leviathan-loving intellectuals, the...
Thursday is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. I would be perplexed by the Lincoln cult if I thought the prime Lincoln idolizers gave a damn about individual liberty. Lincoln is lionized not because he saved self-government, but primarily because he sanctified...
Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced today that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were "a product of circumstance." Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: "These matters will...
So the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed by voice vote a resolution blindly supporting Israeli attacks on Gaza and heaping derision on Hamas. This craven display should awaken anyone who sanguinely assumed that "everything changed" on November 4. The resolution contained...
Reading the justifications that Israeli supporters are offering for the IDF assault, I don't see any rationale being offered that would not justify killing everyone in Gaza. If a single rocket is fired from Gaza territory, does that mean that everyone living in that...
Both Hamas and the Israeli government bear some of the blame, but the Israeli slaughter of civilians far exceeds that inflicted by the ragtag rockets fired from Gaza. The craven response by the American political class to the use of American planes and weapons to...
This is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. President Reagan sent in U.S. troops to try to help stabilize Lebanon after the Israeli invasion (and massacres by Israeli proxies in Palestinian refugee camps) the prior...
Is anyone closely tracking Sarah Palin's continued popularity with libertarians? Charles Murray, one of the Beltway's favorite libertarians (ensconced at the manically pro-war American Enterprise Institute), told the New York Times that he is "truly and deeply in...
In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech. I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he...
In last night's debate, McCain again strutted out the fact of his POW status during the Vietnam war. A servile media has long allowed this to be the primary part of McCain's halo. But instead, it should raise questions that go to the heart of McCain's willingness to...
