Reports say that Iraq's Parliament has approved 27 actual ministers of less contentious ministries and approved "acting" ministers to the important and highly controversial ones. Oddly, (or not?) over a third of Iraqi MPs were not present for the vote according to the...
[H]ow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? - Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Arthur Silber documents the mass scamper over the cliff of civilization. A sample (and hardly the worst) from Rush Limbaugh's show of April...
I've overcome my aversion to doing radio sufficiently to schedule two upcoming interviews: a half hour on Cincinnati's WAIF-FM, this Thursday at 1 p.m. (you can listen live), and a full hour with the incomparable Scott Horton on Saturday at 1 p.m. [Note: We're talking...
People are getting worked up about peak oil theory. I'll reply to some of the deluge of mail in the next day or two but first, three things: (1) Lawnorder, the blogger at Daily Kos who I wrote about in "Oil and Instinct," has written a follow-up posting ("Peak Oil...
In case you think Yaron Brook is unrepresentative of the dork death cult known as Objectivism, here's my conversation with Robert Cons, Objectivist: (unedited, all emphasis original):CONS: Any person who asks, "What is Objectivism?", should do a little reading and...
I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone's asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay? Before all the warbloggers gave their stamp of credulity to US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola...
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I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone's asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay? Before all the warbloggers whooped and hollered about US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola Calipari was...
Wow. BBC reporter and weblogger Stuart Hughes is being blackmailed and threatened by a Romanian hacker who has hijacked his blog. Apparently, the guy took over Stuart's blog and demanded that he post about the Romanian journalists held hostage in Iraq. Daster again! I...
Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute, speaking at Tufts University:"[President George W.] Bush has not taken the actions necessary to defeat terrorism," Brook said in his opening statement. "Instead, he has unnecessarily sacrificed [American] soldiers'...
