Cake Walking
Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Having a Bad Day, Wolfie? After a rocket attack on the Rashid hotel in Baghdad landed only one floor away from a clearly shaken Deputy Secretary of...
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Recent Activity
From my amigo Salsassin in the MixedFolks.com Forum: So how about giving us a synopsis of what you have been involved in lately. There hasn’t been a lot going on lately with regard to...
Paranoia Will Destroy Ya
It is interesting how some folks can see a conspiracy everywhere. Because I disagree with one particular individual on the current focus of the "multiracial" movement and "race" relations in general, a 21st Century...
Revisionist History
Amy Kaplan on Confusing Occupation With Liberation: "Why, we have gotten into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I'm sure I wish I could...
Shut Up Already!
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times – On Listening: There was a headline that grabbed me in The Times on Saturday. It said, "Cheney Lashes Out at Critics of Policy on Iraq." "Wow,"...
New From Independent Institute
Pyrrhic Victories on Iraq by Ivan Eland http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031022Eland.html A Civics Lesson Under One Roof by Brigid O’Neil http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031020ONeil.html Negotiating Freer Trade — or Just Bigger Bureaucracies? by Alvaro Vargas Llosa http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031020Llosa.html
Where is the outrage?
Associated Press on Young boys rescued from slave-like labor: Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment this week after their...
Get Thee To The Recruiter
Jefferson at HotLiberty.com takes on chickenhawk Ben Shapiro in this excellent post and basically challenges him to enlist or shut up. Shapiro, like most of the more vocal Iraq war hawks, has never worn...
Council of Conservative Jackasses
Radley has an interesting posting on the Council of Conservative Citizens over at The Agitator. Check it out. I've spoken out on this issue in the past – here, here, and here. I share...
Citizen, Your Papers?!
The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is renewing their push for a de facto national ID card. They can call it anything they want – but its a frigging national ID card...