But I find Eric's revelation about martyred "civilian" Michael Teague hilarious. And reading the article about his 2000 trial, I'm struck by the incredible convergence of sleaze in one place and time: Aryan Nation goons like Teague, hate-chasing narc Morris Dees, and...
Just watched The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) last night. I have not read the similarly titled book by Christopher Hitchens, whose smug visage appears a zillion times throughout the film to detail Kissinger's alleged war crimes in Cambodia, Chile, and East Timor,...
Why do you run anything by Jonathan Rauch? I know you guys are more interested in promoting Big Macs and drive-thru abortions than you are in advancing libertarian foreign policy, but I have yet to read anything even mildly liberty-oriented by Rauch. The absurd and...
From the new Warmongerz blog, a war FAQ:Q: How can destroying things and killing people be good for the economy? A: To see this, you have to look at the big picture. Sure, Johnny might not come home, but he's just one person, and you can't compare him to society,...
Regarding yesterday's prediction of a likely shift in liberventionist rhetoric, reader Daniel Larison sends the following thoughts:You might also consider that, conversely, the mayhem in Iraq is doing more to convince people in the Near East that "freedom" and...
Only joking, of course, and so is he. His April 1 hoax succeeds so brilliantly because it sounds just like Glenn Reynolds and the other warbloggers--well, actually, it's much more coherent in its ridiculousness than any of those guys ever are. Priceless:But then I...
An intelligent reader calls BS on John Derbyshire over at The Corner. In other news, the Derb and Glenn Reynolds retain joint custody of their brain cell, while Rick Brookhiser just tries to be one of the boys.
There's one liberventionist argument that practically every Iraq war supporter uses-- that by establishing a democratic, pluralistic society in Iraq, we plant the germ for the entire Arab/Muslim/oppressed/backwards world. With the current mayhem in Iraq and its...
Courtesy of NY Press. The list is screechy and absurd, as all such things are, but several of the honorees truly deserve unceasing contempt and ridicule. I second the following choices with every cell in my body: 37. ADL director Abe Foxman (I'd go a little higher)...
Interesting quote on C-Span last night (from memory):In 1964, we had a peace candidate who wasn't really a peace candidate.That was a young John Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show, June 1971.
