Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A note from academic/blogger/communitarian Amitai Etzioni: After a mini cyber-disaster and brief hiatus, Amitai Etzioni Notes is back up and running! I've had a few cyber-disasters myself (database meltdown) and know the feeling. Welcome...
Longtime readers know that through my website publication (The Multiracial Activist), I am a plaintiff in a lawsuit launched by the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) regarding secret arrests and detentions by the...
Charley Reese on Tragic Conflict: I used to believe in the concept of a just war, but now I don't think there is such a thing. Every war is unjust, because so many people...
Robert Higgs of The Independent Institute on Suppose You Wanted to Have a Permanent War: The war-on-terrorism rationale has proved congenial to the American public, who have swallowed bogus government assurances that the so-called...
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on The Ten Planks of the “Freedom” Manifesto: Now, tell me if I have this right: It doesn’t really matter whether President Bush and his...
Kamal Taha of Agence France-Presse on Shepherd sues over slaughter: An Iraqi shepherd is seeking $US200 million ($300 million) in damages from the United States military for the deaths of 17 members of his...
The Associated Press on Hatfields and McCoys sign truce: Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud...
Lee Hockstader of The Washington Post on 13 Imprisoned in Tulia Drug Sweep To Be Freed Today: It began one sultry summer morning four years ago, just before dawn, when masked police officers swept...
Big thanks to Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness for the nice mention: 520. James Landrith: Also good to read an actually independent-minded libertarian, not an Administration-apologist what-drug-war-and-civil-rights-abuses crypto-libertarian. Also properly uses the...
Associated Press/MSNBC on House votes to ban Net bet transfers: THE VOTE BANNING Americans from using credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers to pay for online betting transactions passed 319-104, a victory as...