I'm not sure why Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D, decided to surprise everyone and announce his retirement Tuesday. I'll admit right up front that I am not an expert on North Dakota politics, nor a thorough observer of the man's nearly-30 year career (17 years in the...
Maybe this post by George Hawley, "Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem," wasn't directed at Antiwar.com, but I'll address some excerpts from it anyway. In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old...
A piece we ran in Viewpoints yesterday, "Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think," indicated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards. This was incorrect (see this for details). We regret the error. On a...
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says -- and he should know -- there is no difference between the policy of "absolute support" for Israel between Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Obama's own spokesman Robert Gibbs affirmed that, as under Bush, "all options remain on...
The Libertarian Longhorns have invited me to speak at their meeting this Monday, the 28th at 8:00 PM on the subject of America's biggest big government program: Empire. The room is Mezes 1.306 (the Mezes Auditorium). Here is the link to the campus map. Hope to see you...
I'm not a big fan of the New York Times, but today's front-page investigative report on the Pentagon's managing of the news is absolutely first-rate. One of the Pentagon officials, Torie Clarke, the Pentagon's main propagandist, said her goal had been to achieve...
