"If it's newsworthy, it gets on the air, whether it's Bush or bin Laden." So began the first few days of Al-Jazeera's English language news channel, a stream of glitzy slogans and swirling views of the Doha newsroom, punctuated by the occasional ad for a Qatari...
[O]ur leaders may be so demoralized that we could just surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the realists and the antisemites desire. That's Michael Ledeen over at The Corner. Now, using the standard neocon definition of anti-Semite (anyone, Gentile or Jew, who...
A remarkable article in tonight's Haaretz, remarkable not so much in that it talks of a ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because those are certainly common enough, but remarkable in how succinctly it illustrates just how close the two sides are. An...
Jonathan Schwarz examines the sunny side of Iraq-Vietnam analogies, and Leon Hadar measures Israel's window of opportunity for attacking Iran.
Several people have written to inform me that Charlie Rangel's draft proposal is merely a ploy to make war supporters squirm. Well, if it's a ploy, then Rangel is playing with fire, because there are plenty of liberals out there who have rushed to defend his proposal...
Charlie Rangel and other liberals want a return to the draft on the basis of some ahistorical notion that it will prevent future wars. (See here for some background on all the wars conscription hasn't prevented.) For one thing, as Scott points out below, no draft...
Charles Rangel thinks that having a society where human beings own each other is perfectly okay as long as the slaves are destroying lives and property for the state rather than producing things for private plantation owners. From USA Today: "Americans would have to...
LewRockell.com linked to an article of mine today on the servile atmosphere in DC think tanks. The piece is at the Globalist.com website but, since yesterday, the page with my article has been converted into a membership/registration required page. Here's the core:...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has died. He was 94. I know our readers have a wide range of views regarding his economics, but Friedman deserves the thanks of everyone opposed to conscription. A long-time opponent of the draft, Friedman served on the...
In light of House Democrats' choice of Rep. Steny Hoyer over Rep. John Murtha for House majority leader, Robert Scheer's Tuesday column (in today's Viewpoints section) is worth another look. Murtha is far from perfect – in fact, he's been a reliable friend to the...
