Living With War

Neil Young is streaming his new album, "Living with War", in it's entirety, for free. Listen here. Via Anthony Gregory and Daniel McAdams on the LewRockwell.com Blog.

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A Trillion Here a Trillion There

This may be old news, but I had not seen it, and it is something we need to be reminded of everyday: According to an article by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz in the LA Times, the final bill for the war in Iraq "will be much higher than previously reckoned—between...

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Nepal: Whom Should I Hate?

King Gyanendra? The rebels? I'm totally adrift on this whole Nepal thing. Guidance, please! Where are the neocons, the neolibertarians, and the liberal internationalists on this one? How am I supposed to tell the good guys from the bad guys if I don't know which side...

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Peak Oil?

There has been some discussion over the past few years on the matter of the future of oil production and whether we're already past the peak. It always sounded like a bunch of propaganda to me, and by my reading of the new article "Peak Oil Panic" by Ronald Bailey in...

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Comical Scotty

"The Al-Qaeda leadership is on the run and under a lot of pressure. We are continuing to take the fight to the enemy abroad, and making it difficult for them to plan and plot against America," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in Twentynine Palms, California....

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Belated Earth Day Post

This absurdity (and here's why it's absurd) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O'Rourke:Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.It's a pity O'Rourke hasn't applied that insight to the global democracy crusade…

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Attention: F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.

Since you're the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to. I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney:"Drumheller, who retired [from the...

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Got ADHD?

According to the great libertarian journalist James Bovard, Americans have attention deficit disorder. Among his most disturbing conclusions is that most of us have absolutely no idea what the Bill of Rights says or means. Here's what little I can do about that: The...

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