Wonder if She Still Thinks This

Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in an August 2000 speech to the Institute for Justice [.pdf]:

    [D]emocracy need not be a good regime — as we are proving every day. Freedom and democracy are not synonymous. Indeed, one of the grave errors of American foreign policy is the assumption that merely installing the forms of a regime like ours — without its foundation — will automatically lead to freedom, stability, and prosperity.

Zen and the Art of Neoconservatism

From Kevin Carson’s neocon lexicon/guide to inner peace:

Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.).

Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the same unified, objective standard of value as the governments of other countries. The diametric opposite of Moral Relativism (q.v.).

Moral Clarity. The Zen-like state of mind from which it is possible to accuse the same political enemy, simultaneously, of both Moral Relativism and Moral Equivalence.

Raimondo on MSNBC TV

‘I’ll be on “Connected Coast to Coast” hosted by Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley, on Friday(noon EST/9am PST). It’s a segment about military recruiting.. and why the numbers are so low. (Duh!) Right-wing nut-bar Cliff Kincaid (of “Accuracy” in Media) is going to represent the pro-war position. Which I guess means he and his whole family are going to be signing up to go to Iraq real soon now …