when he wrote in The Education of a Christian Prince: "It happens sometimes that princes enter into mutual agreements and carry on a war on trumpted-up grounds so as to reduce still more the power of the people and secure their own positions through disaster to their...

From The Onion:In a transcript of an intercom exchange recorded in March 2002, a voice positively identified as the vice president's identifies himself as "the Lord thy God" and promotes the invasion of Iraq, as well as the use of torture in prisoner interrogations. A...

The news cycle moves ever so quickly, as new scandals overtake those from yesterday. Late in November, Washington and London responded with indignation when British tabloids alleged the intent of George II and Tony the True to bomb Al-Jazeera for daring to oppose the...

Bush tries mightily to put a positive spin on his many failures as he grovels to the Council on Foreign Relations. Perhaps the most subdued insisting we've heard from him in a while. No questions, please. partial transcript mp3

While reading Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of Murray N. Rothbard, I came across a great bit he had about the ultimate victory of liberty - and I don't mean it in the "you can't stop the expansion of our government" sense that our great leader employs in his...

When I first heard the accusation that FDR had deliberately allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor, on this day in 1941, I thought it impossible. That would be like saying we did it to ourselves. But it turned out that I was wrong. All that it meant was that some...

It seems I was right when I thought that the story put out by the military to account for the death of ten Marines and the wounding of eleven more was fishy. Still, the new account doesn't seem all that forthcoming, either. CNN reports:An insurgent homemade bomb that...

Could this acrostic in a Pakistani textbook be the work of a certain internationally recognized Surrealist poet?

Oh my, some "repulsive characters" from a "coven of fringe libertarians" are "crucifying" Conrad Black. Well, if voicing a little schadenfreude as one of the biggest statists of our time is harassed by the state amounts to crucifixion, then call me Pilate. As an act...

Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and upchucks on his own reflection:I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged...