The Roots of Global Terror

The current issue of U.S. News & World Report features an informative article, "The Saudi Connection: How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network," based on five months of research, "a review of thousands of pages of court records, U.S. and foreign...

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Vindictive? Me?

Tax activist Grover Norquist is off to the neocon gulag. I'll bet this has nothing to do with Norquist's opposition to the PATRIOT Act. Nah. Anyway, tough luck, Grover. Spend your life among the likes of Frank Gaffney working to elect the likes of George W. Bush, and...

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Most Ridiculous Item of the Day

Add another barking rat to the liberventionist nest. This one says the folks at Mises are "stark raving nuts" for criticizing Bush foreign policy, whether that policy is right or not. Hmmm. Oh well, he's the expert: Back in college I had a poli sci prof whose politics...

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14 Days in the Big House

So maybe al Qaeda exploited US jihad support prior to Sept 11, 2001, but since then the government has been kicking the terrorists' butts. Right? Maybe not. According to a new Syracuse University study, in the 2 years after the Sept 11 attacks the Justice Department...

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The Clueless Andrew Sullivan…

Heartily recommends Aleksandar Jokic's "Iraq Is No Vietnam, But It May Be Poland" from "Today's Spotlight." Is Andrew really so ignorant of our critique of neoconservatism as to think that the Lenin comparison is new? If so, I suggest he start with Chad Nagle's "The...

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WTF?

A couple of questions as the White House rebukes John Kerry for using the f-word in Rolling Stone: *How short is Andrew Card's memory? *Is Kerry worse than Kerrey?

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ICTY’s new hypocrisy

The Hague Inquisition convicted Bosnian Serb General Stanislav Galic Friday, of "command responsibility" in the siege of Sarajevo. According to BBC, Galic was found guilty of "murder" (?) and "infliction of terror," and sentenced to 20 years in prison. I lived in...

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