No column today because of an appallingly absentminded screw-up on my part, but there will be something this week. Who knows? Maybe my shtick will play better on a Wednesday. In lieu of anything original, I recommend two articles by up and coming writers. Both are...
Says Israeli historian Benny Morris, who also concedes that the volume of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in 1948 surprised even him. A lot of gems in this Ha'aretz interview. Check it out. UPDATE 1/25: I fixed the broken link to the interview. (Hat tip to...
The lunatic irony of intervention: How the U.S. government encouraged Iranian mujahedeen to "liberate" Bosnia. We won't (haven't) live(d) to regret such policies, I'm sure. What blowback?
Steve Reed sends along the following observations about selective reading at the Ayn Rand Institute: I saw your Antiwar.com Blog entries from about two weeks back about the Ayn Rand Institute. The slice you've captured doesn't include, however, a particular subtle...
Who the hell is Baroness Emma Nicholson, and who made her queen of Romania? This bullying busybody is the archetypal progressive imperialist, a preview of President Hillary (minus the nuclear weapons). After throttling the Romanians into Roma marriage counseling this...
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has asked the General Accounting Office to expand its probe of falsified credentials to include Pentagon employees after a surprising find at Homeland Security: The probe began after Linda Callahan, a senior director in the...
One might think that Louisianans would be less inclined than other Americans to indulge in the France-bashing that so amuses hooligans like Emmett Tyrrell. Sadly, though, that's not the case, as shown by the statements of elected boors and an op-ed in Wednesday's...
Wish I'd thought of this first.
That's the projected price of "defense" for 2004. Why so much higher than the $399 billion Pentagon budget request? Many of the Pentagon's new expenses are unplanned, indirect consequences of the continued fighting. The Army, for instance, is shipping home and...
A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...
