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Fukuyama on the Neoconservatives
The Atlantic is running a series that "attempt[s] to replicate what the French author Alexis de Tocqueville accomplished in the nineteenth century with his book Democracy in America," this time through the eyes of Frenchman Bernard-Henri Levy. His interview with...
Death, destruction, fabulous opportunities
Jonathan has put together a post that shows a horrifying aspect of some political responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Fourth Anniversary Of An Enormous OpportunityAnd yet, behind their tears, there seems to be something else. When they think no one is...
Iraq’s Disappearing Billions
How bad is the corruption in the American System of mercantilist warfare and nation building? Former DIA/CIA counter-terrorism officer Philip Giraldi reports in the September 12th issue of The American Conservative:"A Homeland Security Customs Enforcement Department...
Bye Bye Brownie
"In government, the scum rises to the top." - Friedrich Hayek "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." - G WMD Bush, September 2, 2005 Brown resigns.
Bush is Mad
I hadn't looked at a copy of Mad magazine for over twenty years when, earlier this year, I came across this profound slam of Bush and his callous attitude toward dead American soldiers. After numerous technical difficulties, I now present it to those who (like me) are...
Rockwell, Blum and Horton
Today on Scott Horton's Weekend Interview Show (6-8 Eastern), Scott will be talking with Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and hardcore opponent of the warfare state, and then with Rick Blum of OpentheGovernment.org. Listen live.
Statists Caught in Katrina Learn a Thing or 78 About the State
In a well-written account by two communist San Francisco EMS workers on their survival of Hurricane Katrina and Earthquake Government, one realizes something very ironic. In the wake of compounding disasters, ordinary people spontaneously kept a whole city fed,...
Not Just a Bunch of Morons — Outright Liars, Too
I'm watching the City Attorney of New Orleans talking specifically about evacuating the city. She just said something to the effect that "At this time there have been no forced evacuations. Force is not being used." Well, then who was that frail old lady who was...
Dept. of Explanations Owed
From that glorious libertopia the liberventionists promised us:Ukraine's "orange revolution" has lost its lustre, with President Viktor Yushchenko sacking his entire government after its own members accused one another of sleaze, cronyism and debilitating infighting....
