The Instaredundant Glenn Reynolds, Virginia Postrel, and co. have been promoting the heck out of the "Chief Wiggles" toy drive for Iraqi kids. I have no beef with this effort whatsoever (donate here!), but its cheerleaders are the worst types of do-gooders. Hawks all,...
"Bush sees hope in Philippines' past -- He compares it to vision of Iraq's future" but "The Philippines 'Liberator' Was Really a Colonizer." The Prez said the USA "liberated the Philippines from colonial rule.... America is proud of its part in the great story of the...
In unreported news, arson caused $50,000 damage to the home of Mennonite antiwar activists on October 20. Assuming this ever comes to trial, here's a can't-lose defense strategy: 1. Call the fire a preemptive strike 2. Insist that the victims were stockpiling weapons...
If you saw James Bovard on C-Span last night, you probably heard him plug Antiwar.com, right after The Washington Post and The L.A. Times, as one of his favorite sources for info. No mention of The American Spectator.
Rumsfeld comments on the recent attack on an American helicopter, which so far has resulted in the death of 16 soldiers: "In a long, hard war, we're going to have tragic days, as this is," Rumsfeld told ABC's "This Week." "But they're necessary. They're part of a war...
The Washington Post reports that the Coalition has brought the flat tax to Iraq:It took L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad, no more than a stroke of the pen Sept. 15 to accomplish what eluded the likes of publisher Steve Forbes, former representative...
I found this essay: "Public Choice: Politics Without Romance," by James M. Buchanan, on the excellent (though pro-imperialism-tending) aldaily.com website. "Armed with nothing more than the rudimentary insights from public choice, persons could understand why, once...
Rummy and his aides confuse Afghanistan and Iraq, Romania and Russia. Maybe this whole WMD thing was just a mix-up between Iraq and Israel.
“There’s stuff that I’ve only seen in museums, in books or on the Internet,” said Sgt. 1st Class Nelson Castro, the 3-16th’s master gunner. “Most of this stuff is in fairly good shape.” http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18397
Jonah Goldberg posted an extremely suspect bit of hate mail on the Corner today. I'm not sure what this (possibly made-up) rant is supposed to demonstrate--that everyone who opposed the war is a psychotic anti-Semite?-- but I find it difficult to believe that Jonah...
