In honor of Bush's library dedication today, here are some more epigrams he inspired from my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans. Habeas corpus is an insurance policy to prevent governments from going...
Down in Texas, the George W. Bush Library is having formal opening ceremonies today. In honor of the occasion, here's a few epigrams from my 2004 book, The Bush Betrayal: There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more...
Police were continually screaming "don't look out the window!" during their sweep in Watertown last week. This photo shows what happens to folks who disobeyed that order. So our security now depends on permitting police to threaten to kill anyone who disobeys any...
Musing how Bush's war on terror and invasion of Iraq ten years ago changed the world... Here's one of my old fav pieces first published in 2006 by the Future of Freedom Foundation, supplemented with a few photos I took. When I visited the Tower of London, I was...
Following up on John Glaser's excellent post on 9/11 & the Iraq war, here are a couple pieces I wrote shortly before and after Bush attacked Iraq. I had thought that Bush's rascalities would evoke a much stronger backlash than actually occurred. The mainstream...
CPAC is off to its usual mellow start. TalkingPointsMemo reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at conservative gathering CPAC, declared that "Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!" "If you go to war you better mean it,"...
Today is the 20th anniversary of the ATF’s attack on the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. National Guard helicopters played a key role in the initial attack; 51 days later, Army tanks would lead the final assault. I thought Waco might be the most important public...
This 1965 New Yorker cartoon - from the dawn of the era of Vietnam War protests - captures the danger of leaving peace to the experts. Daniel Ellsberg was inspired by some of those anti-war protests. I did a piece for the Future of Freedom Foundation in 2008 on...
The Lincoln movie is on the verge of picking up a heap of Oscars at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. That movie did not quite capture Honest Abe's full record. I was raised in a county that was devastated (and lost much of its population) as a result of...
This cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker perfectly nails the absurd presumptions behind Obama's drone policy.
