The New Energy ‘Crisis’ and Iraq

Tim Gillin of the Personal Independence Day blog has emailed us comments on “Guns, Oil, and Neocolonialism”: My guess is that Hazlitt would recognize a group of inter-related economic myths that are shared by both neocons and greens, both of which are...

Military Numeracy is to Numeracy What…

When I was lad I served a term as security guard at a ship repair firm. Navy guys my age told me tales of rural recruiters’ lies: they’d expected to be learning useful radio technology skills while romancing exotic ladies in foreign ports, instead they...

Propaganda and History

Monday was the 90th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination, the event that sparked (but did not cause) World War One. Though most media were trying to deal with the early transfer of bogus sovereignty to the puppet regime in Iraq, wire services found time to note...

Those Pictures

I’ll let Riverbend tell you what she, as an Iraqi, thinks of those disgusting photos taken at Abu Ghraib prison, from her blog Baghdad Burning: Those Pictures… The pictures are horrific. I felt a multitude of things as I saw them… the most prominent...

Re: Ilana Mercer

Marcus Epstein calls our attention to the latest Ilana Mercer word salad. In addition to the point Marcus makes about the way Mercer excuses all neocons and Jews for the war, it seems to me she should be taken to task for her own anti-semitic views. Mercer: President...