France: What’s Not for a Neocon to Love?

On second thought, maybe Glenn Reynolds would prefer the ticket to France. Or so says Arthur Silber, who finds another reason for the neocons to fall in love with the home of the OJs (original Jacobins). Hey, if it's good enough for Richard Perle...

How America Lost Iraq

Today on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Aaron Glantz about his new book, How America Lost Iraq, and in the second hour, Gordon Prather will return to give us the lowdown on the NPT, El Baradei, Iran, etc. Update: Show's over, archives.

An Enemy of the State

Lew Rockwell's review of my book, An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard is re-posted (and revised) over at the Mises Institute website. It's a great review, and one of the few that truly understood what I was getting at. I won't attempt to summarize...

A Friendly Wager

Justin Logan writes:[P]rofessor Pundit compares and contrasts how friggin' awesome things are in Iraq now with how scary and Hobbesian...er...France has become. Reynolds wonders: "Will France improve as much in the coming year as Iraq has in the past year? Doubtful."...

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Matt Welch notes a most interesting trend for the Bush years:Number of documents classified by the Executive Branch, annually: 2001: 8.7 million 2002: 11.3 million 2003: 14.2 million 2004: 15.7 million Number of documents declassified by the Executive Branch,...

Pot, Meet Kettle

It's a classic case of pot calling the kettle black: Reuters, a wire service notorious for enabling Imperial intervention by publicizing the most crass and wanton propaganda during the wars in Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia (actually, since the beginning of the Yugoslav...

John Paul II: Anti-Communist, Antiwar

Thomas Woods reminds us of a forgotten quote by John Paul II: "Then there are the other social forces and ideological movements which oppose Marxism by setting up systems of 'national security,' aimed at controlling the whole of society in a systematic way, in order...

Ward Churchill and the Axis of Neocons

Ward Churchill worked for Soldier of Fortune magazine -- and once met with Eliott Abrams and a Nicaraguan contra leader back when the Reagan administration was trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime? What's up with that?

Horowitz vs. John Paul II

Does David Horowitz, the Commie-turned-neocon, even read his own website? From the looks of two posts on their appropriately named "Moonbat Central" blog -- one by Richard Poe complaining about how "left-wing" French Catholics are attacking John Paul II, and the other...