Friday, April 29, 2022

TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?

›
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Ch...
1 comment:
Friday, April 22, 2022

TGIF: NATO and Collective Insecurity

›
Collective security, the official goal of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, seems plausible on its face. A group of nations oste...
2 comments:
Friday, April 15, 2022

TGIF: Shades of Gray in the Russia-Ukraine War

›
If you're looking for morality tales -- clashes between the clearly good and the clearly bad -- I suggest you look elsewhere than the ge...
4 comments:
Friday, April 08, 2022

TGIF: In Defense of Ideology

›
The seemingly unprecedented mean-spiritedness of politics these days drives some people to think that ideology is the problem. To distinguis...
1 comment:
Friday, April 01, 2022

TGIF: Joe Biden, What the Hell?

›
What's going on with Joe Biden? Is he oblivious to the fact that Russia has about as many strategic nuclear weapons as the United States...
1 comment:
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

US Troops to Ukraine?

›
Is Joe Biden set to deploy U.S. troops to Ukraine? Watch him address the troops near the Ukrainian border in Poland (1:35) and listen for th...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Biden Puts His Foot in It Again

›
People like Joe Biden never learn from history and never think long-term. It's the double whammy. By declaring that Vladimir Putin must ...

Is Ketanji Brown Jackson Qualified?

›
Is a Supreme Court nominee who can't answer the question "What is a woman?" because, she says, she is not a biologist really q...
Friday, March 25, 2022

TGIF: Our Age of Character Assassination

›
I am not one for romanticizing the past because in every alleged golden age you find grumblers looking longingly to some earlier alleged gol...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Disparity

›
 From Mondoweiss :

Law of the Jungle vs. Law of the Market

›
In the jungle, consumers compete, tooth and claw, with each other for scarce food. In the market, producers compete, peacefully, with each...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Virtues Are Not Vices

›
In some quarters nuance is a vice, in others a crime.
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Synonyms Are Rarer than You Think

›
  Understand is not a synonym for condone , much less for  justify or excuse .
Friday, March 18, 2022

TGIF: Congress Again Rewards Israel's Misdeeds

›
To judge by what Congress is up to these days, one would think that it  wants  to reward Israel for its relentless confiscation of Palestini...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

The Rotten Case for Sanctions

›
Now's a good time to read (or reread) Gary Chartier's 2019 article "The Case for Sanctions Fails at Every Turn."
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Only People Threatened by Russia May Bear Arms

›
Pundits and politicians who routinely deny that Americans have the natural right to keep and bear arms nevertheless are thrilled by the scen...
Friday, March 11, 2022

TGIF: Russia in Ukraine: Cui Bono?

›
I don't know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine -- an argument could be made for the affirmative -- but I...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

American Infallibility

›
Beneath the widespread stubborn American refusal to understand the Russian government's motives for its condemnable invasion of Ukraine ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

Bill Clinton the Horrible

›
If someone has done a full and honest assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency, I would really like to see it. It is stunning how many il...
2 comments:
Friday, March 04, 2022

TGIF: When History Begins - Russia, Ukraine & the US

›
Contrary to what hypocritical U.S. rulers and their loyal mass media suggest, two propositions can both be -- and indeed are -- true: that R...
1 comment: