Some Palestinian kids ( Jonah Goldberg calls them "teens," but that's not specified in the article he linked) set fire to the tomb of Joseph in retaliation for their Israeli-imposed house arrest. Shame on them. Thank goodness those historic-preservationists and...
Farm Aid
Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski on farm policy in Iraq: Orchard bulldozing is part of "a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking U.S. troops." Is it really a U.S. policy? I might credit this designation...
Hot Damn!
An Alternet columnist evinces a bit of skepticism about the American welfare empire! Tell it, sister: What can we, in America, know of how it feels to be a citizen of any other country in the world? We do not have brigades of well-meaning volunteers from, say, the...
An Exhibit for Joan and Alan
Peters and Dershowitz, that is, and all the other credulous souls whose historical knowledge of Palestine comes entirely from The Innocents Abroad. It's a Beirut photo exhibit called "Palestine Avant 1948": It was a land of bourgeoisie who loved racing from Jerusalem...
Blowback…told you so
Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says Can't say I'm surprised...in fact, I and many other critics of the war on Iraq used just this very scenario as an argument against intervention. I suspected that those who supported the march to war understood that this...
Update
A blog I missed, from the random and kind Jeff Trigg.
Shameless Product Placement
Attention, bloggers: We love to be linked! Give us a permanent link on your site, and I'll put you on the Honor Roll, which currently includes the antiheroic Joanne McNeil, the collegial University blog, the erudite Liberty & Power, the dyspeptic Libertarian Jackass,...
Amsterdam on the Mediterranean
This Village Voice article about the Green Leaf Party ("the only pro-cannabis legalization and public health party in Israel") may cause a reversal in U.S. Israel policy. Murder and theft are one thing, but pot? Unforgivable. (Link swiped from Cursor.org)
In Equal Opportunity News
David Frum (scroll down) confirms that Jews can indeed be anti-Semitic. I think that covers just about everyone on planet Earth, David, with the possible exception of those Protocols-peddling Eskimos.
Republicans Who Smoke Pot, or Democrats Who Grasp Economics?
The choice is ours. Julian Sanchez makes a decent case for libertarians to support Howard Dean, despite all the cruel things we've said about the old boy over here. The strategic point seems to be that libertarians increase their significance by becoming swing voters;...


