According to the FBI, 613,986 Americans were arrested in 2002 for mere possession of marijuana. Nathaniel Heatwole faces up to 10 years in prison for demonstrating how porous airport security remains. The National Park Service has blockaded an Alaska family in an...
Leave it to our favorite Canuck to look on the bright side of car bombings and missile attacks: See, all the terrorism in Iraq is good, cos it'll teach the Arabs to hate terrorism.
Just heard a Gen. McInerney on Fox News say that the U.S. has accomplished its primary goal in Iraq, that of ensuring the Iraqi citizens' Four Freedoms. He couldn't quite remember what those are, however, so he came up with "freedom of government, freedom of the...
In McLaughlin Group alumni news, Pat Buchanan sticks up for Gen. Boykin on rather dubious "takes fire to fight fire" grounds. Eerily similar to last Wednesday's townhall.com essay by Tony Blankley, right down to the word "splendid." Some sort of Halloween prank brewing?
Today's article by Karen Kwiatkowski at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons - and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. Now, I'm a fan of cultural history, which is relevant...
Yes, according to The Scotsman, but not for opposing the war on Iraq or giving Labour headaches. Then why? For lending himself so freely to the warmongers' cast of straw men: There's the TV footage of him praising Saddam Hussein for his indefatigability, which the...
Ameer Mahmoud Farhan, a documented "co-operator with U.S. forces," was shot six times in a raid on his home Oct. 18. From the David Frum-endorsed Iraq Today: Rasheed Lateef, a neighbor, says he saw American Humvees and three armed vehicles surround Farhan's house as...
After reading this bizarre celebration of the Grenada invasion on NRO this morning, I first checked to make sure that the author is the same Lawrence W. Reed whose essays I've often enjoyed over the years. Upon the shocking discovery that the two are one, I looked...
The UK branch of Democracy Exports, Inc., has officially purged one of its members. MP George Galloway is Labour no more after being "convicted" on four of the five following charges: · he incited Arabs to fight British troops · he incited British troops to defy...
The $36 billion U.S. government telethon for Iraq's reconstruction isn't going so well. Just over a third of that money has been pledged so far, and that's counting the EU, Britain, and Japan. The president can suck up to Australia all he wants, but given that their...
