That's the projected price of "defense" for 2004. Why so much higher than the $399 billion Pentagon budget request? Many of the Pentagon's new expenses are unplanned, indirect consequences of the continued fighting. The Army, for instance, is shipping home and...
Five years ago, NATO bombers that terrorized Serbia kept above 15,000 feet in fear of ground defenses, which had downed many drones, cruise missiles and even a couple of aircraft (including the famous F-117 Stealth). In two weeks, the Serbian military will destroy the...
The Japanese Defense Ministry has made clear that criticism of the upcoming deployment could result in a "news blackout." However, the Japanese news media does not seem to be willing to fall into lockstep with government propaganda and censor themselves as so many of...
That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani: KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington...
It’s funny, but Bill Evers used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus,...
Today's Wall Street Journal as an OpEd by one of my oldest friends.I got involved with the libertarian movement in 1972. One of the first libertarians I met and quickly became friends with was Bill Evers. In 1973 I initiated a faction fight in California's Peace and...
A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...
From The Jewish Week: President George W. Bush will do better among Jewish voters in November than he did in 2000, even though Jews are much less supportive of his Iraq and anti-terror policies than other Americans. And former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who hopes to be...
USA Today's star foreign correspondent, Jack Kelley, landed in hot water over fabricating a story about a journal purporting to "prove" Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" Kosovo. After an internal investigation, Kelley resigned from the paper. Case closed? Hardly. The...
Monday's column has generated a lot of reader response. It has also gotten plugged by the Christian Science Monitor, FAIR, and Jim Henley.
