In what must count as one of the slowest epiphanies of the post-Soviet era, Glenn Reynolds seems to have concluded that maybe, just maybe, the Iraq war has not been the f*cking awesomest thing ever. So what's a shameless, logorrheic warmonger to do? Host a "blog...
According to a CNN story linked to by this site today, nine U.S. troops were killed in Iraq over the weekend. Let's stop and think for a minute what this means. It means that nine families were told today by the U.S. government that their father, husband, son, or...
To see the effect of this war on the freedom of the press, note that the 2006 Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders ranks the United States 53rd out of 168 countries. Finland, Iceland, Ireland, and the Netherlands tied for first place. The United States...
Amid all the hysteria emanating from the British tabloid press (or do I repeat myself?) over l'affaire Litvinenko, the facts are not fitting the original narrative of a KGB hit against a heroic "human rights" crusader. UPI reports the latest in this developing...
Robert M. Gates, the man slated to fill the "stuff happens" combat boots of Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, offered his first cautious pass at the lessons of the Iraq War this week. In a questionnaire he filled out for the Senate Armed Services Committee in...
I thought it amusing that Fiji's military chief, Frank Bainimarama, gave the prime minister a deadline to conform to the military's demands before he would set a coup in motion. "I think I'll schedule the coup for Friday...mmm...sometime after lunch." The demands...
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, the Independent Institute will be hosting the Thomas Szasz Awards and "Liberty and Leviathan: An Evening with Robert Higgs." Gala reception and book signing at 6:30 p.m., program at 7:00 p.m. Originator of the term, "ratchet effect," to...
"If named the Liberal Party's leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become [Canada's] next prime minister." Read all about it over at the Christian Science Monitor, if you like. Why should you care? Well, this is the same Michael Ignatieff who...
Another Russian "dissident" gets sick, and guess who is blamed. As I said in my column the other day, Russia is getting the same treatment these days as Syria, a bona fide member of the "axis of evil." A Lebanese taxi driver put it this way: "'It's very clear,' said...
Via Daniel McCarthy, an excerpt from The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft, by Russell Kirk and James McClellan (1967): War, Taft perceived, was the enemy of constitution, liberty, economic security, and the cake of custom. His natural conservatism made him a man...
