The awareness of empire turns up everywhere these days. Nicolai Ouroussoff on the predictably yclept Freedom Tower:The darkness at ground zero just got a little darker. If there is anyone still clinging to the expectation that the Freedom Tower will become a monument...
From the president's Tuesday night address:We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves.Yes, great Americans like young Republican Collin Kelley:Kelley told me he's "sick and tired of people saying...
From a good read in today's New York Times by John Tierney:The Crow Indians rode with Custer at Little Bighorn, but they have since reconsidered. On the anniversary of the battle Saturday, they cheered during a re-enactment when Indians drove a stake through his...
So Dubya's giving a prime-time address tomorrow, and from all indications, he won't be saying anything new. Rah-rah troops, yay democracy, boo terrorists, stay the course – we all know it like the Pledge of Allegiance by now. One should never underestimate the mind of...
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in an August 2000 speech to the Institute for Justice [.pdf]:[D]emocracy need not be a good regime — as we are proving every day. Freedom and democracy are not synonymous. Indeed, one of the grave errors of American foreign policy is the...
From Kevin Carson's neocon lexicon/guide to inner peace: Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.). Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the...
Some interesting reads I've come across lately: *Worried about the military's recruiting slump? Well, don't just stand there being a chickenhawk. Pull out a feather and hand it to a younger chickenhawk. *Why the ChiComs are still around and the Soviets aren't. *The...
Yes, apologists for Big Brother are a**holes, and unless the frank description of them as such (and, oh yeah, nudity) offends you, you'll enjoy this Penn & Teller video on the PATRIOT Act.
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Nobel laureate and neolibertarian favorite Milton Friedman gives his protégés something to ignore:Friedman supported Bush's first-term candidacy, but he is more accurately libertarian than conservative and not a reliable Bush ally. Progress in his goal of rolling back...
