Lew Rockwell has written the most thoughtful analysis of what is happening to America, and how libertarians should respond, that I have read since the days when Murray Rothbard was eviscerating statists on the right as well as the left. Here's a taste: [i]"The...
This morning I went to my favorite website -- I need humor in the early hours, and David Horowitz's Frontpage never fails to deliver, albeit unintentionally -- and was definitely not disappointed by the screaming headline above David Horowitz's "blog": "Saddam Hussein...
The idea that the U.S. would ever engage in covert activities to bring down a government is so inconceivable to Nathan Hamm, of "registan.net," that he's shocked -- shocked! -- that anybody would take the memo purportedly by U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Stephen Young...
I note that Antiwar.com has been under attack, lately, from the more whacked-out wing of the ostensibly "conservative" movement, and under that general rubric I have to include the ravings of one Tom Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who...
The little libelers over at "Discover the network" – David Horowitz’s hilariously inept datatbase of subversion – are demanding that I publish my "anti-Al Qaeda bona fides" – at least that’s how one Jacob Laksin puts it. Obviously unacquainted with...
I love reading David Horowitz's Frontpage website, I have to confess, in part because it confirms my very low opinion of the War Party: I mean, where else could someone be so utterly clueless as to name his own blog "Moonbat Central"? Does Horowitz really mean to...
Editorial Note: For those curious to know a few biographical details about Stephen Schwartz (and see below), here is a great little poem that appeared on a Sufi discussion site around the time of the Kosovo war. All the links are inserted by myself: WHO IS THIS...
You know your enemies are getting desperate when they start attacking ... your name. Glenn Reynolds snarks: "Dennis Raimondo? It doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?" One could go on in this vein: would you rather read a book by Ayn Rand -- or by Alice...
My friend Arthur Silber points me toward the ravings of one Kay Arthur, a popular "Christian Zionist" author and minister, at the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters: "Perhaps the most startling moment of the morning was an appearance by popular...
I'd give all the cedars of Lebanon to know how the "opposition" and their American amen corner will spin the latest news from the investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri: "Lebanon's investigations show that ex-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was almost...
