The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States - governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from my Freedom in Chains, 1999) If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were...
In order to save the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Bush administration seeks boundless power that cannot be reviewed by federal courts. Didn't we try this already at Gitmo, and it didn't work out so well? from Bloomberg: Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked...
In a speech yesterday to U.S. troops departing for Iraq, Alaska Governor and GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin declared that the soldiers would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.†Even...
John McCain performed a miracle tonight. He made Bob Dole’s 1996 Republican presidential acceptance speech look downright eloquent. Shizam, McCain’s performance - at least for the first 40 minutes of the speech - made Bob Dole sound like the combination of Daniel...
"CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq" - in today's Washington Post. The subhead should have read: "This Time We Are Not Lying Like Weasels - We Swear!" The Post article on the CIA's reaction to Ron Suskind's revelations included this tidbit from the CIA's...
In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush: "There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom." BUSH: "Of...
Antiwar.com Radio yesterday posted a very informative interview between Charles Goyette and Ron Paul. At about 10 minutes into the interview, Goyette asked Congressman Paul about my comment on the blog regarding negotiations with the Republican party for a speaking...
The Washington Post has an article today on the number of Ron Paul’s relatives who worked for his presidential campaign. I will be curious if there are other analyses of how the Paul campaign spent $30 million. The Post article quoted Paul campaign spokesman Jesse...
Here is a great Washington Post photo of Bush strutting at the White House as he receives visitors from the Rolling Thunder veterans motorcycle group. It is obscene how the same politicians who send Americans to die in unnecessary wars are treated like heroes on...
I don’t know for sure that those two were with Hezbollah - or maybe Hamas - but you can’t be too careful in an area perfect for launching kayak attacks on the DC bridges. Unless of course the kayakers drowned before getting that far (as often happens in the...
