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'...

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere. Ha ha ha! Or not.

Jacob Hornberger reminds us of the true nature of our unlimited republic: "Zacarias Moussaoui’s guilty plea to terrorism charges in U.S. federal district court does not end the Pentagon’s threat that hangs over the head of every federal judge who has jurisdiction over...

Re: Saudi Arabia, Chris Matthew Sciabarra asks,Of what use is "democracy" when the dominant culture would bring about a political condition that might make the current Saudi regime appear "moderate" by comparison?Good question, though not a new one for readers of...