Monday, August 30, 2010

TGIF: Trading for Security

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Americans tolerate a costly global national-security apparatus in part because they believe the country would be economically vulnerable w...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Balfour Declaration: One Deceit Among Many

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Yesterday I started reading Jonathan Schneer's new The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . I learned somethi...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Op-ed: Persecuting a Conciliator

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If a YMCA or a YMHA were planned for 51 Park Place in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the Twin Towers’ former site, who would have notice...

Gandhi on the State

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"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine,...

Who's Got More Blood on Their Hands?

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Islamophobes, Shut the Hell Up

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Updated 8/30/10 An American Muslim has been knifed. A Rev. Nutcase has declared Sept. 11 Burn A Koran Day. A Muslim center construction site...
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The Last Word on the "Mosque" Controversy?

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Tennessee No Evil www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Pa...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Freeman, September 2010, Now Online

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

A Nobel Prize in Physics for George W. Bush

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He invented a perpetual motion machine: the war on terror. Prosecuting the war produces new "terrorists" who in turn justify furth...
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Back on Antiwar Radio

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My latest appearance on Scott Horton's great Antiwar Radio is here . We talked about several issues, including Islam, the Cordoba Initia...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Understating the Deficit

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The Associated Press reports that the current fiscal year’s federal budget deficit will fall short of a record, coming in at over $1.3 t...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Contradiction of a Conservative, continued

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News Corp. (Murdoch, WSJ, Fox) gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association because the company "has always believed in the ...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Contradiction of a Conservative

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The respected conservative columnist James J. Kilpatrick died Sunday. Here's his summary of his political philosophy as reported in the ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Why the Evasion on Same-Sex Marriage?

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[See update below.] I'm appalled at the mental gymnastics some libertarians have undertaken to avoid having to acknowledge that the Stat...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

TGIF: Who's Afraid of Socialism?

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It’s not obvious to me a priori that the American variant of the welfare state is superior in every respect to the European variant. One va...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

We Are Being Stampeded into War with Iran

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It's 2002 all over again. Big Lies are being repeated every day -- without any evidence offered or even skeptical questioning from alleg...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

"All Options" Means ALL Options

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President Obama says that with respect to Iran, "all options are on the table." And chief of staff Rahm Emanuel reinforced this , ...
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Op-Ed: What They Do in Our Name

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The U.S. government goes to appalling lengths to deny this truth. It is about to try before a military commission a young Canadian, Omar A...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

The A-Bomb 65 Years Later

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Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, one of President Harry Truman's two acts of butchery agai...
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You Might Be One, 2

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If you're glad there's no supergovernment monitoring your relations with the U.S. government, you might be an anarchist.