Monday, March 31, 2014

Gaffe = Inadvertent Truth-Telling

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Columnist Michael Kinsley once said that in politics a gaffe is an unintended statement of the truth that has to be withdrawn because it...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Obamacre Contraception Controversy Boiled Down

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"My birth control. My choice. (Your money)."
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Friday, March 28, 2014

George Kennan on NATO Expansion

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As told to Thomas Friedman , May 2, 1998: "I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,'' said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton ...
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TGIF: Obama's Iraqi Fairy Tale

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One need not condone Vladimir Putin’s ham-handedness to see that Obama has no leg to stand on when he contrasts Russia’s essentially bloodl...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

How Much for that Freedom in the Window?

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Okay, freedom -- more precisely, the maintenance thereof -- isn't free. But must we pay a monopoly price?
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Op-ed: The Iranian Threat that Never Was

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If you take politicians and the mainstream media seriously, you believe that Iran wants a nuclear weapon and has relentlessly engaged in co...

An Obamaian Moment of Candor

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"I think if the premise of the question is that whenever the United States objects to an action and other countries don’t immediately d...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Well, Mr. Obama?

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Vladimir Putin acknowledges that Russia has been an empire Why can't Barack Obama do the same for America?
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TGIF: The American Disease

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If the purpose of U.S. intervention in the affairs of other countries is really to help suffering people, the program has a fatal flaw. (Thi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Yeah, I'm Nervous

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How distressing is it that the question of war-or-peace is in the hands of the clowns we call politicians and "leaders"?
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Peculiar Theory

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There's a peculiar theory floating around which says that libertarians can have nothing to say, as libertarians , about how people exerc...
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My Latest with Scott Horton

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Here's  my latest from The Scott Horton Show, in which Scott and I discussed Ukraine and the roots of American empire.

How'd That Work Out?

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The early American radicals insisted on decentralization of power, which required a weak national government and sovereign states. The early...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Liberty Against the Warfare State

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Kyle Platt of Liberty.Me at the recent International Students for Liberty Conference in D.C. He's t...
Friday, March 14, 2014

TGIF: Empire on Their Minds

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The conflict in Ukraine has prompted several level-headed commentators to point out that, of all governments, the U.S. government is in no ...

Jeff Tucker's "Against Libertarian Brutalism"

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Jeffrey Tucker has written an exciting and extremely important article: "Against Libertarian Brutalism." Please read it. My sum...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Gopnik on Empire

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"The worst pretense of empire is that every rattle on the edges is a death knell to the center." -- Adam Gopnik

Op-ed: How Americans Can Help Ukrainians

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There is a way to help that does not expand Washington's power. Read about it here .
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Well Put

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"Every age has some ostentatious system to excuse the havoc it commits." --Henry Walpole, 1762
Friday, March 07, 2014

TGIF: Work!

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Among those who have commented on the nature of work, I prefer Maynard G. Krebs to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the economists to the moralists....
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