Our Broken System July 8, 2004 On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, Judge Reggie Walton made a decision and ruled on my case. Under his ruling, I, an American citizen, am not entitled to pursue my 1st and 5th Amendment rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United...
Regarding the dismissal of her suit against the FBI, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds sends this along:They are fighting it relentlessly all right! Now, this can be used to continue the gag on Congress, the quashing of any subpoenas for my deposition, and to prevent my...
Roderick Long responds to a recent bout of militarism over at Liberty & Power, and his post is worth sharing and expanding upon. Long:Jacob [Levy] describes [Michael] Badnarik's position as a "silly Panglossianism about politics that says, 'Any wrong must be traceable...
And justice for all:A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday by a whistle-blower who alleged security lapses in the FBI's translator program, ruling that her claims might expose government secrets that could damage national security. U.S. District Judge Reggie B....
In the biggest anticlimax since, oh, John Kerry's last foreign-policy speech, Kerry picks John Edwards for a running mate. I guess he could have done worse. In related non-news, the Murdoch press maintains its high standards of accuracy.
The Daily Iowan gives us a shout-out, which is always nice, but it includes an annoyingly common misperception.Weird times? Consider this: As I was flipping through the 300 or so websites I have bookmarked, I came across antiwar.com. And there I found an essay by Pat...
*Jim Henley serves an ace on the libertotalitarians at Volokh *Arthur Silber's back, asking "How many liberations does it take to power a lightbulb?" *Gene Healy doesn't give a f**k what Cheney says – except when he's shredding the Constitution and lying us into...
On the verge of his departure from National Review, William F. Buckley sends a message to the snotty punks now running his magazine:Mr. Buckley said there was a growing debate on the right about how the war in Iraq squared with the traditional conservative conviction...
If you're looking for some reading material this weekend, check out the current dead-tree issue of The American Conservative, featuring an interesting interview with Ralph Nader and a review of Sean Hannity's latest masterpiece by moi (not available online).
The definitive al-Qaeda-Iraq connection. What they won't be mentioning:The document states that Iraq agreed to rebroadcast anti-Saudi propaganda [mid 1990s], and that a request from Mr. bin Laden to begin joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia went...
