Great Minds…

Jesse Walker pens a much more thorough criticism of the U.S. war on Latin America. On the Bolivian uprising: [I]t was a short jump from trampling the liberties of the coca growers to trampling other people's freedoms as well, with Amnesty International condemning the...

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Swing Voters in Baghdad

This article about plans to bring troops home made me wonder: In light of all the fuss about military votes in the 2000 election being counted, and the presumption that those votes were heavily pro-Bush, is anyone in the White House worried about how homesick soldiers...

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Farm Aid, Pt. 2

When not busy destroying Iraq's orchards, the U.S. government finds time to shoot and poison Latin American farmers. Thomas Jefferson's obsession with agrarianism may not have been pure sentimentality, after all. Having regulated and subsidized America's small farms...

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Fact of the Day

I am not sure the Black Flag (teenage anarchists) knows that their standard "upside down flag" has real meaning: * United States Code (The Collected Laws of the United States) Title 4, Chapter 1 - The Flag Sec. 8. Respect for flag SubSec. (a) The flag should never be...

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The Gregg Easterbrook Affair

Doesn't interest me in the least, but I find Jonah Goldberg's reaction hilarious. As a writer at Anti-Semitism Review and a colleague of the undisputed king of the smear, Goldberg has precious little room to criticize Abe Foxman. I suspect he fears that the fire he...

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Make Sure to Tip the Gatekeepers!

Oh, I've apparently committed a blogging faux pas. How gauche! Almost forgot-- two more blogs for the unofficial, nonexistent blogroll: Serfdom Times and Krokul River. Goodness, hope no one rescinds my invitations to all those hip D.C. and L.A. blogger parties! Update...

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Faster, Harder, Bigger

Great God almighty, what the hell is wrong with Michael Ledeen? For some time now, he's been ending almost every essay at National Review with the phrase "Faster, please." It's like a porn spammer's version of "Carthago Delenda Est," and from a guy whose e-mail...

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