Ron Paul gave this speech before the US House of Representatives as they voted on House Con Res 154 "expressing concern" over Russian involvement in Alexander Litvinenko’s murder. Mr. Speaker: I rise in strong opposition to this ill-conceived resolution. The US...
Matt Yglesias captures the spirit of John McCain as the essence of militarism: "For McCain, a certain culture of honor, militarism, and nationalism are their own reward. The military is to be celebrated and supported not for what it does but for what it is. Thus, a...
This country is truly blessed with brilliant law professors, and Glenn Reynolds may not even be the brightest. Here's David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy: Ron Paul is a tempting protest vote, and I did support him in 1988 when he ran as a Libertarian, but he...
Does the world face what some style as Armageddon because American pro-Israel groups still believe out-dated Israeli "public relations"? According to Ha'aretz chief political columnist AKIVA ELDAR in an October 8, 2007 Democracy Now! interview, while the Israel lobby...
So there's a running debate in libertarian circles about whether Randy Barnett's a libertarian or not, and it's getting old. This is a superficially free country; Barnett and his buddies can employ any nomenclature they like. Barnett does seem to be true blue on all...
Well actually the headline is "Ethiopian army to stay in Somalia for weeks" -- but those of us who have paid attention to Somalia over the past few years know what that really means in relation to what the UN has been insisting is Somalia's government. This...
The parable of David and Goliath has re-emerged on the world stage. Ironically, the most recent battle cast the Israeli State as the heavy. The "David" of the piece was decentralized "4GW" (4th Generation Warfare) as deployed by an estimated 3,000 Hezbollah fighters....
Several years ago, when President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, I sent an email to several people to explain that in the original German, it would be called "Heimatsicherheitsdienst. " Heimat is "Homeland" in German. Sicherheitsdienst means...
I asked once before: "Is the United States a Terrorist State"?
Politics1.com is a very useful site for political information. The politics1.com site includes pages for each state, with lists of announced and potential candidates, links to party websites and news websites for each state. Politics1.com also carries long,...
