Antiwar.com columnist Dan Sanchez spoke to Liberty on the Rocks in downtown Los Angeles Saturday evening at Casey's Irish Pub. Dan was introduced by long time antiwar activist Andrew Walker. Dan explains how the cycle of violence must end for all people to realize the...
The Blind Leading the Blind: Everyone’s Middle Eastern Madness.
“There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves,” or so said the forgotten English writer Junius in the mid-18th Century. When I read his words the other day I was reminded of other situations where...
A Slice of the Anti-war/Syria position in NYC
It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
Journey to the Center of an Islamophobe’s Mind
I don't know how my arcane little post on Frank Gaffney's World War I theories launched a discussion of Shariah law, bikinis, "executive gays," and Ted Nugent, but Eric Dondero dropped in, so… Dondero is raving about, among other things, a county in Maryland providing...
Frank Gaffney Slams Noted Libertarian Isolationists Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
I missed this Frank Gaffney column from a couple of weeks ago: I had an unsettling flashback last week listening to two of the Republican presidential candidates talk about foreign policy. Representative Ron Paul of Texas and former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman espoused...
Libertarian Commissars Proclaim Jon Huntsman Safe as Milk
TPM reveals the presidential preferences of D.C. libertarians: Libertarians in Washington are not happy about how the Republican primary is shaping up. Barring a miracle, there are two candidates with a decent shot at the nomination. Mitt Romney, the godfather of...
Join Kelley B. Vlahos for Antiwar Panel at Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference
Kelley B. Vlahos along with military veterans Daniel Lakemacher and Students for Liberty's Peter Neiger will be appearing at an Antiwar Break Out Session at the 2011 Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, October...
Don’t Like the Drugs, but the War Must Cease
We've been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it's worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than "full speed ahead." It's especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says "I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear...
Anarchists for Giuliani Celebrate 3 Years of Non-Rule by President Rudy
Monday night's debate reminds me of an insightful analysis from the last campaign. Randy Barnett, Georgetown University law professor and anarchist, wrote the following in The Wall Street Journal in July 2007: While the number of Americans who self-identify as...
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...