Archive for the ‘Foreign policy’ Category
Obligatory post about Memorial Day
Monday, May 26th, 2008MSN has a quiz about "military myths"; hmmm, I wonder why they left out the one about wars and military interventions protecting our freedoms or doing anything else good for the country. Jacob G. Hornberger wrote the definitive short essay about why the troops and the military of the Imperial Federal ...
Ron Paul and Obama on USSR, Iran
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Hey, Will Bunch: since you are probably still concerned with the reasons intelligent, informed Americans hold stupid, State-loving journalists like yourself in such low esteem, here is yet another example for you: Who said the following: Here’s the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn’t have a ...
THAT is real journalism!
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Keith Olbermann gets a bad rap from libertarians because of his left-liberal socialism and the rarity of a dissenting commentator ever appearing as a guest on his show. Not having watched or heard much from him, I can't back up the latter accusation, but I've watched enough to know the ...
Libertarian lyrics
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I think the Eagles, like most music artists, and particularly their main songwriters, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have the reputation of being quite liberal. For instance, Don Henley founded the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit effort to buy land in and around Walden Pond to preserve it from development. ...
Caleb Campbell is neither a hero nor a coward
Friday, May 9th, 2008This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties. —Robert Higgs It was a national sports ...
Young Americans aren’t angry enough about foreign policy
Thursday, May 1st, 2008A high school student named Peter Fulham published an opinion column in USA Today complaining that young Americans are not demonstrably angry enough about the war in Iraq and the aggressive American foreign policy. Young people are tired of hearing about Iraq, and they gave up getting angry about its ...
Can anarchism save Somalia?
Sunday, April 27th, 2008"Good government" is a paradox. Any people so decent as to be capable of implementing it would be better off without it, and any people so rotten as to need it would be incapable of implementing it. —unknown Somalia's condition, its history, and the attempts by the U.N. and U.S. to impose ...
Not a sleeping giant
Monday, March 31st, 2008After September 11, 2001, I remember callers to talk-radio shows (probably Boortz and Hannity) and possibly online columnists (perhaps at TownHall.com or World Net Daily) using the old phrase "they've awoken a sleeping giant" to refer to the crimes committed against Americans and the wrath they were about to incur. ...
Grade-A tirade
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote an absolutely fantastic tirade about the complete embarrassment and failure of the Bush regime. Some highlights (the majority of the article, perhaps): You are not paying taxes merely to fund torture and bomb-dropping and the killing of countless innocents in Iraq in ...
Open letter to Boortz listeners
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I was very interested to see this open letter to fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz and his radio show listeners. I hope certain residents of Georgia who are co-proprietors of this site can listen to Boortz on Thursday or Friday and see if he mentions this ...
Vox Day on Ron Paul and the Bhutto assassination
Friday, December 28th, 2007Insightful, incisive, and correct, as usual. Money quote: "I'm increasingly coming to believe that Democrats are stupid, and Republicans are insane. Both conditions result in the advocacy of that which will inevitably lead to evil. In fact, that will be my explanation the next time someone asks me why I ...
Rhino Repellant
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Wow, it seems that by agreeing to begin a libertarian blag with my friend John, I seemingly have unleashed a monster onto the world. When he approached me with the idea, I was concerned that we would not have frequent enough updates. It seems this fear was absolutely unfounded, since ...
Objectivists against Ron Paul
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Stephan Kinsella has an excellent refutation of the Objectivist disapproval of Ron Paul as candidate for president—and, indeed, his entire philosophy in general. Kinsella says, It is clear that the primary objection of Objectivists to Paul is his foreign policy views and non-interventionism. The other criticisms do not seem to ...