Clark Stooksbury's intelligence-gathering at FreeRepublic.com yields evidence of the chilling fate we avoided by deposing Saddam.
Ask a Stupid Question…
In a result I did not anticipate, I have been receiving answers all day to the question posed below. No pics of sexy, politically active Nepalis, however.
Nepal: Whom Should I Hate?
King Gyanendra? The rebels? I'm totally adrift on this whole Nepal thing. Guidance, please! Where are the neocons, the neolibertarians, and the liberal internationalists on this one? How am I supposed to tell the good guys from the bad guys if I don't know which side...
Physicists: Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table!
Jorge Hirsch writes: "Together with 12 of the nation's most eminent physicists, I recently wrote to President Bush to tell him that to plan for the use of nuclear weapons against Iran is gravely irresponsible. We asked him to publicly take the nuclear option off the...
Belated Earth Day Post
This absurdity (and here's why it's absurd) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O'Rourke:Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.It's a pity O'Rourke hasn't applied that insight to the global democracy crusade…
What a Bunch of Sissies
"Mindless snark." A "cheap shot." That's how Glenn Reynolds and his sorority sisters have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of Reason:The Past Is Another Planet Glenn Reynolds, writing in Reason in 1999: [O]ur current situation–with so many foreign...
Tonight We’re Going to Argue Like It’s 1999
Jesse Walker finds a Glenn Reynolds statement from 1999 that could easily appear on Antiwar.com:[O]ur current situation – with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can't keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential...
Peña at GWU Tuesday
Antiwar.com columnist Charles Peña will be at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University tomorrow to launch his new book, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism. Details are available here.
Underlying Causes, Warbot Edition
The wimp still won't link to Antiwar.com, but today he offers an etiology of Dubya's youthful delinquency – and, apparently, his adult worldview. Under the heading "Bush Insulter Dies," James Taranto relates the following story about recently deceased Yale chaplain...
