I thought it amusing that Fiji's military chief, Frank Bainimarama, gave the prime minister a deadline to conform to the military's demands before he would set a coup in motion. "I think I'll schedule the coup for Friday...mmm...sometime after lunch." The demands...
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, the Independent Institute will be hosting the Thomas Szasz Awards and "Liberty and Leviathan: An Evening with Robert Higgs." Gala reception and book signing at 6:30 p.m., program at 7:00 p.m. Originator of the term, "ratchet effect," to...
"If named the Liberal Party's leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become [Canada's] next prime minister." Read all about it over at the Christian Science Monitor, if you like. Why should you care? Well, this is the same Michael Ignatieff who...
Another Russian "dissident" gets sick, and guess who is blamed. As I said in my column the other day, Russia is getting the same treatment these days as Syria, a bona fide member of the "axis of evil." A Lebanese taxi driver put it this way: "'It's very clear,' said...
Via Daniel McCarthy, an excerpt from The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft, by Russell Kirk and James McClellan (1967): War, Taft perceived, was the enemy of constitution, liberty, economic security, and the cake of custom. His natural conservatism made him a man...
"If it's newsworthy, it gets on the air, whether it's Bush or bin Laden." So began the first few days of Al-Jazeera's English language news channel, a stream of glitzy slogans and swirling views of the Doha newsroom, punctuated by the occasional ad for a Qatari...
[O]ur leaders may be so demoralized that we could just surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the realists and the antisemites desire. That's Michael Ledeen over at The Corner. Now, using the standard neocon definition of anti-Semite (anyone, Gentile or Jew, who...
A remarkable article in tonight's Haaretz, remarkable not so much in that it talks of a ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because those are certainly common enough, but remarkable in how succinctly it illustrates just how close the two sides are. An...
Jonathan Schwarz examines the sunny side of Iraq-Vietnam analogies, and Leon Hadar measures Israel's window of opportunity for attacking Iran.
Several people have written to inform me that Charlie Rangel's draft proposal is merely a ploy to make war supporters squirm. Well, if it's a ploy, then Rangel is playing with fire, because there are plenty of liberals out there who have rushed to defend his proposal...
