After this spittle-flecked screed (and it keeps going) from a commenter at Liberty & Power, resident AWC-basher Steven Horwitz adds the following Deep Thought:As someone who thinks ALL foreign aid should disappear, including, of course, aid to Israel, I still believe...

I think Jonathan Schwarz of A Tiny Revolution has figured out the answer to The Great Perfume Atomizer Mystery.

I'm mad at Hunter S. Thompson. I'm mad at the way he lived his life, whacked out of his gourd, so to speak, on any chemical you can think of, and how he met his death, apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Either way, it was a waste. After becoming a...

Radley Balko, one of the "credentialed bloggers" at CPAC (CPAC stands for Bush Cult-now you know) writes in response to Yglesias and Atrios expressing "alarm" over a speech given by Rep. Chris Cox. Cox's remarks seem to indicate that he suffers under the Fox Delusion...

Quotable - Tom Knapp: Has it occurred to anyone that George W. Bush appointing a "national intelligence director" is sort of like Larry Flynt appointing a "national abstinence czar?"

Bruce Gagnon is reporting, on his blog "Organizing Notes", that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has come out in favour of a long-term occupation of Iraq; Hillary Clinton, who hopes to become president, is on the Sunday morning talk shows saying that our troops might be in...

Saturday, between 4 and 6 pm EST, Scott Horton will interview the tastefully named Scott Horton (they're not the same person ... at least I don't think they are.) about the rotten apples who run the "Special Access Program", a black ops torture and humiliation scheme...

Manadel al-Jamadi Today, we have a new term to add to our ever-growing torture vocabulary list along with strappado and waterboarding. It's a technique called "Palestinian hanging," not because Palestinians do it, but because Palestinians are hung that way by...

Antiwar.com isn't even supposed to have a position on Mark Thatcher and his merrie band of overthrowers, since it's not a US foreign policy issue and it's not really a war issue. But I have a position on the subject, and it is this: if I had known they were planning...

James Bovard points out that Porter Goss Hates America:"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists," CIA director Porter Goss told a congressional committee yesterday. “ Goss warned: “Islamic extremists are exploiting the...