Monday, July 31, 2006

"Respecting Lebanon's Sovereignty

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From Ran HaCohen: Since Israel withdrew from Lebanon six years ago, then, it hasn't given its northern neighbor even a single day of qui...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Where Is the Constitution?

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The question in the title is not like "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" The answer isn't the National Archives. I mean...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Not World War III

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When a war breaks out somewhere, two sound principles for civilized people are: (1) demand an immediate ceasefire and, failing that, (2) kee...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Another Anti-Semite Is Born

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On CNN today I saw a woman in Tyre, Lebanon, whose apartment had fallen in on her thanks to Israeli bombers, shout, "Death to Israel. G...

Self-Defense

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People often ask, "Doesn't Israel have a right to defend itself?" As phrased, this question serves to evade fundamental issues...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Law of Unintended Consequences

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From analyst Leon Hadar: In many ways, American intervention in the Middle East set the stage for the these clashes. In ousting Saddam Huss...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Maximum Efficiency

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If Israel were trying to create a new generation of Palestinian and Lebanese militants, it couldn't do a better job than the one it'...
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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Nearly One-Third of Casualties Are Children

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Nearly one third of all casualties in the Lebanon-Israel conflict have been children, according to the United Nations’ emergency relief co-o...

Minimum-Wage Follow-up

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It occurs to me that something Roderick Long wrote on the male-female wage gap ( "Platonic Productivity" ) is relevant to my recen...
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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Orwell Lives

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From Thomas Friedman, the New York Times ' venerable fount of wisdom (Friday): The only way this war is going to come to some stable co...

Accomplice

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From the news services : American officials said Friday that the Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precisionguided bombs to Israe...
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Friday, July 21, 2006

George II Gets Clear

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Sometimes it requires tragic situations to help bring clarity in the international community. President George W. Bush on the G8 Summit I s...

A Failure to Communicate:
The Case of the Minimum Wage

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Many of us have been trying to teach the public that the laws of economics operate no matter what anyone thinks of them. They grow out of th...
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Bush Countenances Middle East Violence

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If you want to understand the evil here, imagine assembled in a large room all the hundreds or thousands of Lebanese and Israelis who will...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

ARI Update

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Perhaps someone drew ARI's attention to the fact that the stem-cell bill George II vetoed was about government funding, not private effo...
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ARI Favors Legal Plunder?

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Ayn Rand Institute Press Release Bush Vetoes Medical Progress July 20, 2006 IRVINE, CA--"President Bush's veto of a bill to remove...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

More Bad Stuff ARI

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Onkar Ghate, a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, starts an op-ed this way: To achieve peace in the Middle East, as in any region, the...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

ARI Endorses Slaughter of Palestinians

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From the Ayn Rand Institute: Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians July 18, 2006 Irvine, CA--Results from a recent poll indicate that 7...
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George II and Condoleezza's Moral Depravity

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Surely this is a new low for the Bush adminstration. Any decent person would demand an immediate end to the murder and mayhem now taking pla...
Monday, July 17, 2006

Libertarian Party R.I.P.

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Re the destruction of the Libertarian Party qua libertarian party, I commend this post by Kevin Carson at Mutualist Blog.
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