Gaza: Cap Guns Versus Bazookas

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If one side is armed with cap guns and the other with bazookas, would we call that a “war” between roughly equal powers? I thought of this as I turned to Antiwar.com to see that President Biden has approved...

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Bob Costello: Farewell to my dear old friend, RIP

I just found out that my old friend Bob Costello died in late November. Bob and I met in the late 1970s in the Libertarian Party.   We worked closely at the San Francisco Montgomery Street complex that included the LP, Libertarian Review, Cato Institute, and Students...

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When a Famous War Reporter Stood Up to Rumsfeld

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Friday afternoon, President Biden posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to my old friend Joe Galloway. No one could accuse veteran war reporter Galloway of being...

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