Jesse Walker pens a much more thorough criticism of the U.S. war on Latin America. On the Bolivian uprising: [I]t was a short jump from trampling the liberties of the coca growers to trampling other people's freedoms as well, with Amnesty International condemning the...
Swing Voters in Baghdad
This article about plans to bring troops home made me wonder: In light of all the fuss about military votes in the 2000 election being counted, and the presumption that those votes were heavily pro-Bush, is anyone in the White House worried about how homesick soldiers...
Stumped for Halloween Costume Ideas?
Try a necklace of ears and an Army uniform. Sure to impress all the good patriots on your block.
Farm Aid, Pt. 2
When not busy destroying Iraq's orchards, the U.S. government finds time to shoot and poison Latin American farmers. Thomas Jefferson's obsession with agrarianism may not have been pure sentimentality, after all. Having regulated and subsidized America's small farms...
Now That Mother Theresa Has Been Beatified
The U.S. military must stay in Kosovo to sort out her ethnicity, argues Stephen Schwartz.
The Gregg Easterbrook Affair
Doesn't interest me in the least, but I find Jonah Goldberg's reaction hilarious. As a writer at Anti-Semitism Review and a colleague of the undisputed king of the smear, Goldberg has precious little room to criticize Abe Foxman. I suspect he fears that the fire he...
Make Sure to Tip the Gatekeepers!
Oh, I've apparently committed a blogging faux pas. How gauche! Almost forgot-- two more blogs for the unofficial, nonexistent blogroll: Serfdom Times and Krokul River. Goodness, hope no one rescinds my invitations to all those hip D.C. and L.A. blogger parties! Update...
Faster, Harder, Bigger
Great God almighty, what the hell is wrong with Michael Ledeen? For some time now, he's been ending almost every essay at National Review with the phrase "Faster, please." It's like a porn spammer's version of "Carthago Delenda Est," and from a guy whose e-mail...
Plenty of Shame to Go Around
Some Palestinian kids ( Jonah Goldberg calls them "teens," but that's not specified in the article he linked) set fire to the tomb of Joseph in retaliation for their Israeli-imposed house arrest. Shame on them. Thank goodness those historic-preservationists and...
Farm Aid
Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski on farm policy in Iraq: Orchard bulldozing is part of "a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking U.S. troops." Is it really a U.S. policy? I might credit this designation...


