Thanks to Matt for bringing the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector to our attention. It's true that looking down the preference hierarchy list creates absurdities, like my own Sharptonite Libertarianism. But in defense of the candidate selector I have...
Pro-Saddam demonstrations are on the rise and being put down by US troops. Meanwhile, the initial spurt of anti-Saddam demonstrations seems to have dissapated, with "Only small groups of Communist Party supporters were seen celebrating in the capital." Iraq's...
Apparently, winning the peace will take a while:Also Tuesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq and said U.S. troops might stay in Iraq for one or two years. 'About as far as we are looking is through the next couple of years,'...
Via Franklin Harris, the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector. My results certainly look odd, which suggests a BCS-like inscrutability in the formula, as well as a lack of exhaustive choices on some questions. Here's what I got: 1. Your ideal theoretical...
The always intriguing Paul Cantor on imperialism vs. trade in the Black Sea hood: What drove one empire after another to try to take over the Black Sea, despite the enormous expenditure of resources, human and material, that was always involved? Different motives were...
Asks this fellow, who thinks we're leftists. I just love political commentary straight from the medulla oblongata: Bush right. Antiwar not Bush. Antiwar left. Left bad. (He must have hated watching this!) If our esteemed detractor wanted commentary on Saddam's...
U.S. soldiers Monday used batons to break up a demonstration in Tikrit to protest against the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown. About 700 demonstrators gathered outside Tikrit University chanting pro-Saddam slogans. Soldiers shouted back "Saddam is in our...
From Bush's speechwriter to God's press secretary. From today's Diary: My take on the capture of Saddam will appear in tomorrow’s National Post. I’ll post a link as soon as the Post has the story on line. For now, let’s say that while the President’s opponents have...
Finally! Justin Raimondo's The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection is now available from Amazon.com.
Take a few minutes to read this interesting post by blogger Ken MacLeod. A self-described "ex-Trot," MacLeod lays out the leftist case FOR war (sounds amazingly similar to the current White House line, no?), then contrasts it with (an oversimplified but generally...
