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After a slide-show snafu yesterday, you can now see a proper presentation on our main page of the latest articles from James Bovard (on Obama’s plans for AmericaCorps and, just maybe, mandatory national service) and Oliver Marre (on libel tourism). Take note, too, of a new article that isn’t included in the slideshow: Michael Lind’s [...]
By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community nationwide — and raised a question. What does it mean to be a Catholic university in post-Christian America?
Are there truths about faith and morality that are closed to debate [...]
Filed under: Culture
Burt Blumert, founder of the Center for Libertarian Studies and an indispensable help in getting Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com (and many other anti-war, anti-state projects) off the ground, died this morning. Here’s Eric Garris’s remembrance. And here’s Lew Rockwell’s.
Blumert was an uproariously funny public speaker, and equally good on the printed page. His Bagels, Barry Bonds, [...]
Filed under: libertarianism
My colleagues in the security business inform me that the United Kingdom is now the most constantly and thoroughly surveilled country on earth. Cameras provide continuous coverage of the centers of most cities and there is monitoring of all major roads and bridges by CCTV linked to monitors that can send one a ticket automatically [...]
Filed under: Culture
Shorter Andrew Breitbart(via Big Hollywood): Obama won because leftwing trolls wrote mean comments on conservative blogs and conservatives play too nice:
A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently.
The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government’s plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK. This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as terrorists in 1997 because of their long record of killing civilians (they [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
I suppose that one has to accept that the US has a clear national interest to eliminate Usama bin Laden, even if al-Qaeda currently appears to be incapable of pulling off large terrorist attacks a la 9/11. I am guardedly optimistic about the Obama plan for Afghanistan-Pakistan even if it does smell a lot like [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
I can think of few things more pointless than turning your lights off from 8:30 til 9:30 tonight to “vote” against global warming. The Earth Hour about page says:
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching [...]
Filed under: Culture
“In 1877, Lord Salisbury, commenting on Great Britain’s policy on the Eastern Question, noted that ‘the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.’
“Salisbury was bemoaning the fact that many influential members of the British ruling class could not recognize that history had moved on; they continued to cling to policies [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Welcome as the quiet is in Baghdad, it’s not because the raging sides have settled. AP reports, “Only an estimated 16 percent of the mainly Sunni families forced by Shi’ite militiamen and death squads to flee their homes have dared to return.”
We congratulate ourselves for securing the country, but the militias did that job for [...]
Filed under: War