But I Wanna Be a Conspiracy Theorist!

Aw shucks, turns out we at Antiwar.com haven't been conjuring visions of a dark neocon conspiracy, after all. Jim Henley goes super-sleuth on something called Google: I read a lot of criticisms of neoconservative foreign policy. Been reading them for years, actually,...

Democracy vs. Freedom

Every time I question either the policies or character of the "reformers" in the former Yugoslavia, there's guaranteed to be at least one letter accusing me of sympathies for the nationalists, nationalist-socialists, etc. My disdain for democracy really gets people's...

Atrocity Exhibition, with an Unlikely Curator

Anyone catch this report of a U.S. atrocity in Iraq? I'm not sure I buy it, but it's not from an antiwar/anti-occupation source-- it's from Zeyad. Yes, that Zeyad, he of "kill and rape all the Sunnis" fame. Glenn Reynolds and co. had no problem with that little...

Extra! Extra! David Brooks Cops to His Rank Stupidity

From Atrios, courtesy of David Sneek, David Brooks's response to critics of his most recent garbage: For what its worth, that neo being short for Jewish was meant as a joke. Nothing more. Most of the people who get labeled as Neocons are Jewish, so I was just sort of...

Liberventionists in Oz

R.J. Stove nominates Tim Blair for most obnoxious. Despite the general irrelevance of his posts, he seems mildly witty. I was actually chuckling a bit as I scrolled down the page--until I hit this post on David Brooks' latest ruminations: Brooks has nailed it... David...

I Think the Accent Was on “Creative,” Guys

The fascinating economist Joseph Schumpeter, whose concept of "creative destruction" has been so abused by Michael Ledeen and various liberventionists, opposed the Second World War. Found this nugget from a Schumpeter biography via LRC blog: Before the war's outbreak...

Oink, Oink, and Away

Great roundup of base-closure stories by Jeremy Sapienza. Which makes me wonder: once (if) these bases close, will the folks who get kicked off the dole remain as intensely militaristic as they are now? Will love last after the pork is gone?

Equal Time, Fair Play, and All That Crap

Before anyone calls for my scalp, here's a link to a non-loony Randian whose work you might enjoy: Arthur Silber, who writes: I think that a deep understanding of Rand's ideas, and especially of the unique methodology which she brought to her explicitly philosophic...

They Aren’t All Bad…

But some Randians are pretty creepy. Jim Capo sends in his nomination for most obnoxious "libertarian" hawk: Leonard Peikoff and crew at the Ayn Rand Institute. Not that they're being untrue to Rand's vision or anything. Check out her own thoughts on collateral...

Let’s Send This Lie to an Ignominious End

The "neocon is a codeword for Jew" lie, that is. Some great refutations over the last week of this dirty ploy: *Justin Raimondo (and also see this) *Gene Healy *Steven Greenhut *Calpundit *Josh Marshall Feel free to send me any notable links you've seen on this topic,...