Seems Jacques Chirac can't catch a break. A few weeks ago French voters demonstrated their incredible esteem for him by rejecting the Chirac-supported centralizing EU"constitution" and the even more unaccountable bureaucracy it would have ushered in. Then earlier this...
Reuters reported Tuesday that Bosnian Serb police had found a bomb near the Potocari Memorial in Srebrenica. It wasn’t long before the viceroy’s office (OHR) issued a statement insinuating that the RS police staged the whole thing to disrupt the commemoration. (!)...
When John Tierney was named a columnist at the New York Times back in March, I yawned. First, it's the paper that gave Nytol its name. More conducive to my indifference, though, were the hosannas Tierney's appointment drew from the likes of Virginia Postrel, Reason,...
Leading the pack of Christian warmongers that I mentioned in my last post who practically elevate military service to the level of the Christian ministry is President Bush himself. But Bush does them one better. He insists that there is no higher calling than military...
It was two years ago, on July 2, 2003, that George Bush bragged, "There are some who, uh, feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: Bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation. “ -...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show: First up will be Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers on his new book Schizophrenic in Japan : An American Ex-Pat's Guide to Japanese and American Society/Politics & Humor. In the second hour, I'll be discussing a possible renewal of the...
James Wolcott reads National Review -- so you don't have to. Speaking of National Review, they recently ran an editorial accusing Senator Dick Durbin of perpetrating an "anti-American slander" most foul when he compared Guantanamo to the Soviet gulag, averring that...
Christian defenders of war and the military, and especially those who practically elevate military "service" to the level of the Christian ministry, ought to pay more attention to the words of those who have been in the military instead of disqualifying me from...
Antiwar.com is delighted to add a new member to our blog: Laurence M. Vance. Laurence is a regular columnist for Lew Rockwell.com, where he writes primarly about the issues of war and peace. He is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor in accounting and...
The awareness of empire turns up everywhere these days. Nicolai Ouroussoff on the predictably yclept Freedom Tower:The darkness at ground zero just got a little darker. If there is anyone still clinging to the expectation that the Freedom Tower will become a monument...
