Blogger Mark Byron--check him out on Glenn Reynolds' blogroll-- daydreams about building a Republican supermajority by assassinating 21 U.S. Senators, 5 Supreme Court justices, and a slew of bystanders. If only the warbloggers had told us that this is the sort of...
PROOF! (of spin)
Big Story: Neocons Leak Neocon Memo, then Report On It Today, Fox News anchors are repeatedly mentioning the blockbuster story "proving" a long-time link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. The leak was made to a truly unbiased source, the Weekly Standard. The...
US Death Toll Tops 400 (now 418)
Updated 11/15/03 6:50 pm EST:The death toll hit 418 today, with the downing of two Black Hawk helicopters in Mosul, killing at least 17, and the death of another GI in a roadside bombing. While the Black Hawk crash appears to be the result of a collision, witnesses...
Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler… Bush?
Frederick W. Kagan, author, and teacher of military history at West Point, is a tax-and-spend hegemonist. In "The art of war," an article from the November, 2003, The New Criterion, which I found on the excellent aldaily.com site, Kagan warns about the dangers of the...
More on Tiger Force
If you haven't read Nick Turse's follow-up to the Toledo Blade's recent series on Vietnam atrocities, please do. And because I'm feeling especially dyspeptic today, I ask you to please forward Nick's article to every gung ho jingo in your address book.
The Tale of the Slave
We know that conscription is slavery and empire is slavery but what is slavery? "The Tale of the Slave" from Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 290-292. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is...
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*SO SUE HIM: Julian Sanchez gives everyone's favorite law professor a swift kick in the shorts. *SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: The patriots at Free Republic show veterans some mad love. *UH, MR. PRESIDENT: “Is Bulgaria still part of the coalition, and, if so, what have they...
To Hell with Ted Rall. Now Tell Me Where He’s Wrong.
This essay by Ted Rall has sent Instaredundant and his posse into a holy furor. "Rall supports the Iraqi insurgents!" shrieks the blob. Come on, guys, that's simple-minded even for you. But let's grant that Rall is, in Reynolds' words (actually, he probably took them...
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From Wednesday's Today show: Couric: “You say you’re not a hero...” Lynch: “No.” Couric: “...you’re a survivor.” Lynch: “Exactly.” Couric: “But, Rick, you think Jessica Lynch is a hero.” Bragg: “Yeah, we’ve argued about this, too, a lot. But, you know, I’ve said this...
Forum on PATRIOT Acts — Tonight in Oakland, California
Our good friends at the Independent Institute are putting on a very important forum tonight in Oakland, California. Terrorism expert James Bovard, Margaret Russell of the ACLU, and Georgetown University Professor of Law David Cole will explain the dangerous PATRIOT...
