Well, the Swiss – or, more accurately, a majority of voters in democratic Switzerland – have gone and done something wrong and dumb, approving a referendum that bans the construction of minarets. Libertarian demerits are certainly in order. But one very wrong,...
America’s Next Top Nazi
If this isn't the craziest thing you read today, then you must be scrubbing graffiti off the walls of a padded cell: While the sixth season of the fashion reality show “Project Runway†is fast-approaching its climax, it’s become a running joke in my house that...
NPR Host Confirms Stereotype
Guy Raz, weekend host of All Things Considered, has threatened Antiwar.com with legal action over "claims" made in an opinion piece today, "New Think-Tank Seeks to Regulate Historical Analogies." (No, I'm not joking.) I offer my deepest apologies to Mr. Raz for...
Some Reward
John Bolton's mustache is twitching: The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday. Let me get this...
When Will They Apologize to the Speicher Family?
For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began: He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been...
Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust
From the New York Times, March 14, 2002: President Bush said today that he ''wouldn't put it past'' President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to have secretly held an American pilot hostage for more than a decade. Speaking at a news conference, Mr. Bush indicated that he did...
Doing 55 in a 54
Kelley Vlahos has a great piece today on the Henry Gates affair and the larger problems of which it's a symptom. One such problem is the ever increasing number of pretexts on which the authorities can interrogate, search, assault, and arrest citizens. The authority...
We’ve Always Been at War With… Line, Please
Poor John Cornyn. It's tough to keep track of all the people we may have to murder indiscriminately. A key US Senator who has extensively supported India, including the passage of the nuclear deal, stunned his Indian and Indian-American supporters this weekend when he...
All the Wrong Reasons
There's a lot to ponder in this open letter to Barack Obama from Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, et al., but I'll stick to this part: We have to cherish and protect the multitude of educational, professional, and other networks and friendships that underpin our friendship...
Space: The Final Caliphate
You lazy, gravity-worshiping hippies may be content to sit around stoned while the Mooninites convert to Islam and threaten the democratic peoples of interstellar space, but Charles Krauthammer will never retreat! After countless millennia of gazing and dreaming, we...
