This is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. President Reagan sent in U.S. troops to try to help stabilize Lebanon after the Israeli invasion (and massacres by Israeli proxies in Palestinian refugee camps) the prior...
For those interested, here is my debut in the American Conservative — a review of Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right. And Jim, I don't know who these pro-Palin libertarians are, but I sure ain't one!! In fact, I was an early detractor.
Is anyone closely tracking Sarah Palin's continued popularity with libertarians? Charles Murray, one of the Beltway's favorite libertarians (ensconced at the manically pro-war American Enterprise Institute), told the New York Times that he is "truly and deeply in...
It appears that the US raid in Mosul we reported earlier this month which killed 11, including several women and children, was in fact the same raid that killed Abu Qaswarah, the much ballyhooed al-Qaeda in Iraq second in command. Qaswarah has an interesting...
I made a mistake and rush to correct it. The photo of the Afghan mujahadin does not include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar because, contrary to my contention in this post, he did not meet with Ronald Reagan in the White House. It was not for lack of an invitation, however. In...
I didn’t want the week to go by completely without noting the revealing interview given by Likud Party leader and former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the Financial Times and published in its October 7 edition. The interview makes clear that Netanyahu, who,...
[audio:http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/download.php?filename=2008-10-09_045_the_fraudulent_war.mp3] Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and proprietor of LewRockwell.com, and Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of...
In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech. I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he...
It isn’t very often that I get excited about advertisements – in fact, it’s never happened! – but if you’ll look at the top of the front page of Antiwar.com, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Because, you see, The American Conservative isn’t just...
Monday will reportedly see the final edition of the neoconservative New York Sun. The Sun was started in 2002 by Conrad Black and a number of other investors. They took a consistent stand in favor of neocon wars. At the start of this month, the newspaper said it was...
