Be Very Afraid

As if on cue, "neolibertarian" blogger Glenn Reynolds reminds us that he was ahead of the curve in whipping up terror hysteria.

Re: Waco, OKC, and the Awful Truth

Thanks a million for the plug, Matt! I just blogged at LRC a little more about the parallels between the scapegoating of the right after OKC and the scapegoating of the left after 9/11. And I agree about the parallels you mention about the demonization of the enemy at...

Waco, OKC, and the Awful Truth

Good article by Anthony Gregory on the causes and consequences of the Waco and Oklahoma City atrocities. Like Anthony, I'm appalled by all the Democrats who shriek about the PATRIOT Act, but whipped out their presidential kneepads to defend the slaughter at Waco and...

Shocking Hypocrisy: Antiwar People Against More War!

After issuing all the requisite distortions and oversimplifications about Darfur – you can start here for a corrective – neocon Max Boot hits the American antiwar movement where it ... um, I'm not sure where it hits us:Remember how exercised everyone around the world...

My Other Car is a Horse-Drawn Plow

I've received about a dozen replies to "Oil Supply and Demand." About half of the replies were hostile and insulting, which would seem to be a strange reaction considering that all I suggested is that oil production is not peaking and that if it were government...

Oil Supply and Demand

I got an e-mail from Marty Sereno, professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, regarding "Oil and Instinct." What follows is his e-mail message (minus a last paragraph about helium) interspersed with my replies. --- Marty Sereno: I received an...

This is all Woodrow Wilson’s fault

Saturday beginning at 4pm Eastern time on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Jim Powell, author of Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II. In the second hour, the guests will be Elaine Cassel to...

How to make a difference in Iraq

L to R: Rafat, Dr. Salam and Raed Raed Jarrar, his family and girlfriend Niki began a project some five months ago to purchase and distribute medicines in Iraq. They thought that being Iraqi (except Niki, who's Iranian), they'd know the best places to distribute the...

Iraqi Victims of American Delusions

Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged...