Looking over at the main page just now, I see that 589 people have contributed $22,414 to the Antiwar.com pledge drive. That breaks down to about $38 each. At that rate, we need 332 more contributors to break $35,000. Hey, blog readers, have you pledged yet?
Two cheers for satirical media: Julian Sanchez gives props to Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca, and Brian Dunaway pronounces Jon Stewart brighter than Richard Perle. In other comedy news, Bill Maher's demotion to pay cable has made him much easier for those of us in...
H.R. 3439, making its way through Congress, would authorize the federal government to "embed" CIA agents within local police departments to blur the distinction between local cops and feds.The Campaign to Demilitarize the Police is organizing to stop the...
Radley Balko donates a new orifice to liberventionism. By the way, if you don't know what "liberventionism" means and why I use the term with contempt, just check out the piece Balko refers to and the comments beneath.
Yeah, that Boris Johnson of Lord Black's stable purees the Hutton report: Let us remember how this affair began. On Tuesday September 24, 2002, Tony Blair stood in the House and waved a document of which he had high hopes. "The threat of Saddam and weapons of mass...
Jacob Sullum on the White House's "noble" facades: Last June New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman counted four reasons for the war: the stated reason (Saddam had WMDs and might give them to terrorists for an attack on the U.S.); the moral reason (saving Iraqis and...
Andrew Higgins of The War Street Journal seems to think he's stumbled across an original insight. In today's opening installment of a series called "Power & Peril: America's Supremacy and Its Limits,” Higgins profiles Morocco (sorry, not available for free). The...
The "Defense" Dept. actually endangers the United States -- for example, its empire of bases brought a foreign power struggle to New York and DC a couple of years ago. (So now we have a Homeland Defense department. What were the other guys supposed to be defending?)...
The inability to make distinctions, or the belief that one's audience is so unable. R. Emmett Tyrrell begins his defense of Oxyconservative Rush Limbaugh as follows: Really, it is not very amazing that a government vendetta has been launched against Rush Limbaugh, the...
War planners not only are rethinking the unthinkable -- how and when to use nuclear weapons -- they're discussing it. Out loud. Over drinks and cheese balls... William M. Adler begins his frightening commentary with the opening night reception of Strategic Space 2003,...
