The Washington Post reports that the Coalition has brought the flat tax to Iraq:It took L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad, no more than a stroke of the pen Sept. 15 to accomplish what eluded the likes of publisher Steve Forbes, former representative...
I found this essay: "Public Choice: Politics Without Romance," by James M. Buchanan, on the excellent (though pro-imperialism-tending) aldaily.com website. "Armed with nothing more than the rudimentary insights from public choice, persons could understand why, once...
Rummy and his aides confuse Afghanistan and Iraq, Romania and Russia. Maybe this whole WMD thing was just a mix-up between Iraq and Israel.
“There’s stuff that I’ve only seen in museums, in books or on the Internet,” said Sgt. 1st Class Nelson Castro, the 3-16th’s master gunner. “Most of this stuff is in fairly good shape.” http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18397
Jonah Goldberg posted an extremely suspect bit of hate mail on the Corner today. I'm not sure what this (possibly made-up) rant is supposed to demonstrate--that everyone who opposed the war is a psychotic anti-Semite?-- but I find it difficult to believe that Jonah...
According to Albert R. Hunt, writing in yesterday's Wall Street Journal ("It's a Real War and It's Not Going Well"), "Rather than an incentive to cooperate, the effect of the Bush pre-emptive doctrine on Iran and North Korea, the other members of the infamous axis of...
Arthur Silber sees two options for Iraq policy: we can spend decades and billions in a futile attempt to turn Iraq into Switzerland (as the brilliant Jonah Goldberg once suggested), Or we can simply leave as quickly as possible -- which means that Iraq is likely to...
Check out this interview with Jim Lobe on the history of the neocons. If you have problems with the streaming version, you can also download the .mp3 version. Thanks to "Philip Dru," whose Website has a great selection of interviews with notable libertarians and...
John Laughland on violence, fictional and real, in The Spectator: During the recent Anglo-American attack on Iraq, no seriously disturbing images of corpses or wounded bodies were broadcast, just as they had not been during the Kosovo war in 1999 or the Afghan war in...
Not that the Pulitzers mean anything, but notice all the buzz around Stars & Stripes lately? Well, there's another reference in this article on military voters squirming loose of the GOP claw. I pondered this possibility early last week (you heard it here first!), and...
