The last time 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. Now he is forced to pay for the "missing" body armor. The army charges soldiers for missing equipment. When medics rushed...
What Richard Perle has learned from the Iraq war:MUNICH, Germany, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Richard Perle, a key architect of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, said on Saturday the West should not make the mistake of waiting too long to use military force if Iran comes close to...
From the National Review:"In between our last two posts I went to Drudge to see what was happening in the world. The lead story was about a ship disaster in the Red Sea. From the headline picture, it looked like a cruise ship. I therefore assumed that some people very...
Here is how to know if George Bush is lying: There is an assertion coming out of his mouth:"This terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks."Now come the facts:"The National Security Agency's secret domestic spying hasn't nabbed any Al Qaeda...
All libertarians know about Crisis and Leviathan - not just the great book by Robert Higgs, but the simple principle too: when bad things happen, government almost always benefits, and further, the "ratchet effect" makes it so that when government power grows it is...
Tuesday the 31st, on the KAOS Report, I talked with Eugene Jarecki, the director-producer of Why We Fight, a new documentary about Ike's warning and the misplaced power of the Military-Industrial-Complex. It begins with short clips of Eisenhower and Bill Hicks....
The best response to the SOTU I've read so far is Sheldon Richman's. How any free-marketeer can stand behind that speech is beyond me. Leftists should pay attention, too: Richman's insights on energy policy deserve serious consideration by those whose rhetoric Bush...
I can't find a link yet, but Keith Olbermann just said on MSNBC that Cindy Sheehan has been arrested in Washington DC where she was to be a guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey at tonight's State of the Union. Update: BradBlog is reporting that CNN says so too. Update 2: The...
Jim Henley:My rule of thumb: If Person A says "Israel" and Person B says, "You mean, the Jooooz! Neener Neener Neener!" *at most* Person A should spare the breath to say "F_ck off, Person B" and get back to whatever he or she was saying in the first place. But that's...
George Will's latest, on Tuesday's State of the Union address, practically sparkles with sanity. On the global democratic crusade:The success of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Palestinian elections is but the latest proof of what happens when the forms of...
