by Tex MacRae | Jan 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive. SUCCESS! United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a...
by Justin Raimondo | Jan 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: “THE NYT’S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or...
by Matt Barganier | Jan 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
When you erect the goalposts just beyond the line of scrimmage and make them 500-bodies wide, it’s hard not to kick the ball of ridiculously low expectations through. Yes, it’s great that Iraq’s elections turned out less bloody than even the warbots...
by Tex MacRae | Jan 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
Arthur Silber has a petition appeal from Barbara Boxer. As Arthur says:Just do it. It would be awfully nice finally to have someone in this administration held accountable for something, for God’s sake. And perhaps if Boxer has several hundred thousand signatures on...
by Mike Ewens | Jan 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
In Jerry Z. Muller’s The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, one finds a detailed description of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan in the context of the anti-commerce/anti-market era in which it was written. Hobbes questioned his era’s...
