Thomas Woods, over at the LRC Blog has put out a call for great antiwar speeches in American history, so here's a good one I remember reading in the New American. In an article called "Minding Our Own Business," Steve Bonta quotes a speech given in 1898 by...

If the prohibition of torture is truly unjust, then is a little civil disobedience too much to ask for? Where is our Thoreau with thumbscrews? Jim Henley questions the torture enthusiasts' depth of conviction:Okay, here's the scenario: Terrorists have planted a...

National Review exposes Christiane Amanpour's inner anti-Semite. Elsewhere among the deep thinkers, Glenn Reynolds turns his marble-sharp wit on those who have accused John Ashcroft of spying on MLK.

In a protest against the US's continued presence in Iraq and the continuing Russian aggression and human rights abuses in Chechnya, prominent human right's activist Said-Emin Ibragimov began a hunger strike to raise awareness on November 16. His condition has grown...

Back in August I had an interesting talk with Richard Maybury, an economist of the Austrian school and editor of the financial newsletter Early Warning Report. He is the author of a big idea, actually a model with which to help predict long term trends in global...

As you know, the so-called social contract which created the national government provides them the power to prosecute for treason, as it was in the Old World, but at least they made the standards pretty specific. From Article 3 Section 3: "Treason against the United...

Buried down at the bottom of this news article: Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, who resigned as oil minister last week over increases in consumer fuel prices, also resumed his old post after the prime minister and president asked him to do so, Iraq's Council of Ministers said....

Repaired some broken links, deleted some defunct ones, and added four on the floor: Diana Moon, Sheldon Richman, Glaivester, and Kevin Carson. Check 'em out.

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented "state's secrets...

Check out these pathetic right-socialist warmonger types trying to claim that Americans aren't bothered by the recent National Security Agency wiretapping scandal. Citing a Rasmussen poll, "NewsBusters" claims, "the nation doesn’t feel the Bush administration is doing...