And no one's laughing? A great article on a global delusion: The Day Irony Failed, by Gary LaMoshi. The US State Department weighed in on the Makati crisis by backing "the legitimate civilian government of the Philippines". The US cleverly avoided use of the word...
Paul Wolfowitz is now saying that fighting the war in Iraq is key to fighting the war against terror. In fact , he is now saying, that's why the American army invaded Iraq- our intelligence was "murky" but surely everyone can see that without invading Iraq, America...
Ali Abbas, the Iraqi boy who lost both arms and his family during the war, will be transported to London for prostheses. That the artificial limbs and subsequent therapy alone will cost $675,000 brings to mind Henry Hazlitt's "blessings of destruction".
I feel safer already. We have let the Vatican terrormasters run amok for far too long.
Over the last month, the justifications for war offered by the Bush administration have been examined and found wanting. It turns out that the evidence for the military threat posed by Saddam Hussein to the United States was quite weak. But last week there was a...
About spreading freedom at gunpoint. Drug prohibition seems to be out the window in liberated Afghanistan-- which is why we'll soon be invading them again. From the Christian Science Monitor: Bumper year for Afghan poppies BATIKOT, AFGHANISTAN - Gul Hazrat Bacha has...
According to the Financial Times, Ms Kori Udovicki, "a Yale-educated economist and former expert on Yugoslavia for the International Monetary Fund" is the new head of the Serbian central bank. The choice should not be surprising. Udovicki is a Statist economist to...
On one of the nightly news programs this evening, news of Uday's and Qusay's deaths was said to have been greeted by Iraqis with celebratory gunfire. The video showed sporadic green flares across the Baghdad sky to support this claim. Struck me as odd that Iraqis--who...
I made reference to Haggard in my 4th of July piece for his musical merits, but Merle's politics are pretty solidly libertarian, too. This profile on Salon (from November 2000) is a good place to start: [O]ver the years it has become apparent that at the heart of his...
This afternoon on Fox News, John Gibson was interviewing country singer Merle Haggard about his new song, "And that's the news". After listening to the lyrics Gibson asked Haggard if he was questioning the legitimacy of the Iraqi war, Merle denied the charge,saying...
