Is anyone closely tracking Sarah Palin's continued popularity with libertarians? Charles Murray, one of the Beltway's favorite libertarians (ensconced at the manically pro-war American Enterprise Institute), told the New York Times that he is "truly and deeply in...
Al-Qaeda’s Moroccan Swedish Iraqi Leader
It appears that the US raid in Mosul we reported earlier this month which killed 11, including several women and children, was in fact the same raid that killed Abu Qaswarah, the much ballyhooed al-Qaeda in Iraq second in command. Qaswarah has an interesting...
Correction: The Terrorist Refused to ‘Pal Around’ With Reagan.
I made a mistake and rush to correct it. The photo of the Afghan mujahadin does not include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar because, contrary to my contention in this post, he did not meet with Ronald Reagan in the White House. It was not for lack of an invitation, however. In...
Likud Wants to Go the Apartheid Route
I didn’t want the week to go by completely without noting the revealing interview given by Likud Party leader and former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the Financial Times and published in its October 7 edition. The interview makes clear that Netanyahu, who,...
Lew Rockwell Interviews Jacob Hornberger
[audio:http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/download.php?filename=2008-10-09_045_the_fraudulent_war.mp3] Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and proprietor of LewRockwell.com, and Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of...
‘Pro-Islam’ Talking Doll Too Silly Not to Mention
I know this doesn't really have to do with much of anything we cover, its just way too funny not to mention. Several local Fox affiliates are running a short (slightly over 1 minute long) news broadcast about Fisher Price's Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo...
McCain Jumps the Gun with “My Fellow Prisoners”
In a speech today, John McCain told the audience: "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." Here is a 13 second YouTube clip from the speech. I thought McCain had been in politics long enough to know not to notify people that he...
I’m Excited – About An Ad!
It isn’t very often that I get excited about advertisements – in fact, it’s never happened! – but if you’ll look at the top of the front page of Antiwar.com, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Because, you see, The American Conservative isn’t just...
Summary Executions in Iraq
The Independent's Robert Fisk has a great article tonight about the summary executions being carried out in Saddam's old intelligence HQ, now a "high-security detention facility." Of particular note is that the government's "security officials" are so inept that they...
