Turning in His Grave

Max Borders, program director at the Institute for Humane Studies, has penned one of the most bizarre (and condescending) arguments for liberventionism I have ever seen. Jeffrey Tucker at the Mises Institute has put up a lengthy posthumous rebuttal from IHS founder...

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Honor Among Thieves

No wonder Richard Perle digs convicted embezzler Ahmed Chalabi so – they're two perps in a pod:Press tycoon Conrad M. Black and other top Hollinger International Inc. officials pocketed more than $400 million in company money over seven years and Black's handpicked...

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Israel Meddling in US Policy? Perish the Thought!

From the New York Times:The F.B.I. is investigating a Pentagon official on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel, government officials said on Friday. The espionage investigation has focused on an official who works in the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary...

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Lynndie England vs. John Belushi

When I put up my last post, I was worried that the punchline – a reference to Rush Limbaugh's comparison of Abu Ghraib torture to fraternity pranks – might be a little overplayed. Thank God for torture prober James Schlesinger, who again invoked this...

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Expect Bill Bennett to Blame Nintendo

How does an occupying force amuse itself in a country where booze, dope, and hookers are hard to come by? From today's Washington Post:An Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has found that military police dogs were used to frighten detained Iraqi...

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Bligamy? Blogamy?

I'm not sure what it's called to blog for two sites, but I'll be guesting over at Liberty & Power for awhile. If you're not reading L&P already, get with it.

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Edward Luttwak: Cut and Run, but Slowly

Reagan-era hawk Edward Luttwak calls for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in today's NYT. Sort of.[F]ew Americans are prepared to simply abandon Iraq. For one, they are rightly concerned that to do so would be a mortal blow to America's global credibility and encourage...

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