Month: July 2005

Amazon.com has a great sale:

Murray Rothbard’s 4-volume history of Early America, Conceived in Liberty is a mere $63 for all four books. This set has been selling for $100 for many years.

Make sure you order it using this link, so that Antiwar.com gets a cut of the sale.

Read the excerpt “Pennsylvania’s Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690.”

Read Robert Klassen’s review.

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Walter Block, of the Mises Institute and Loyola University all about liberty and economics, Monica Benderman about the conviction of her husband Kevin for refusing to go back to Iraq, and reporter David Enders live from there, about the permanent crisis in Fallujah.

Update: Show’s over. Block is a genius, Monica Benderman is one tough lady, and I missed David because Iraqi cell phone service still sucks.
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The neocons now think China is going to attack us with… earthquakes. Lunacy, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Here‘s a video of a band called Bright Eyes playing a pretty cool antiwar song on Leno.

The American Conservative briefing by Philip Giraldi that has been getting all the attention is now available online.

Former CIA officer Giraldi discusses the Pentagon’s plans to nuke Iran, details of an internal CIA review of George Tenet, and the Shi’ite revenge killings going on in Baghdad.

Over on the blog, John Derbyshire – of whom Gene Healy once wrote, “It’s almost as if a team of genetic scientists took a mouth-breathing, beer-swilling, Pak-bashing specimen of pure Cockney trash and raised his IQ by 100 points.” – keeps it real:

I would much rather we had done ten times as much damage, killed ten times as many Iraqis, and left ten times as quickly. That is the war I should have liked to see; that is the war that might have done us some good and advanced our interests. This is a half-hearted war, a nice war, a lawyer’s war.

Uh huh. Well, I’m with him on the “quickly” part. Say what you will about the man, but never say he’s dishonest:

Our policy should be the one practiced by the great empires throughout history: (1) Soothe the barbarians with flattery, gifts, bribes, and commerce — and yes, always hope they will take up civilized ways, which they always might. (2) Watch them constantly for signs of trouble. Infiltrate, conduct quiet assassinations, set them squabbling among themselves. (I greatly enjoyed the Iran-Iraq War.)

Ah, the good old days. Thank goodness none of that has come back to haunt us!

What else? Oh, another Brit (they class the joint up) gets into a cyber slap match with John “My Dad Is Norman” Podhoretz. After Andrew Stuttaford called Tony Blair “disgusting,” Baby Pod’s smooth dome turned a deep purple:

OH, I’M HERE, STUTTAFORD… [JPod]
…and I caught you calling Blair “disgusting” again, and I just want to say that for me and millions of others, calling Blair disgusting is disgusting.

To which Stuttaford responded perfectly (emphasis mine):

[W]ho are these ‘millions’ of whom you speak? Probably not those millions of Brits who specifically did not vote Labour because of Blair’s personality, and probably not those millions of British Conservatives who as, Iain correctly notes, find Blair “despicable”. It’s probably fair to say that a good number of those who write for the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph (two publications which are normally quite well thought of around here) also consider Blair disgusting. Perhaps their views don’t count. They only have to live under Blair after all. Why should they know anything about him?

What’s this? One country in the world where Americans don’t know best? Somebody report this Stuttaford fellow to the Neocon Reeducation Unit, stat. (The Stuttaford-Podhoretz argument continues on the Corner for those excited by the swagger of SPF-50 cowboys.)

Finally, over at David Frum’s special blog – we can’t have the wordsmith behind “axis of evil” mixing it up with the rabble, now can we? – we learn that Linda Tripp was a CIA agent.