Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
Wrong Target
From a press release by the Cato Institute: Charles V. Pena, director of defense policy studies, made the following comments regarding yesterday's deadly bomb blast in Saudi Arabia: "Monday night's terrorist attack in Riyadh,...
Database Fever
Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times on Hill assumes oversight role on airline screening: Congress has given itself special oversight authority to track a new airline screening process criticized by some lawmakers as an...
Body Count
Cal Ulmann has blogged about Ice-T's return with Body Count. All I ask is when? When is the new album due in stores? I saw Body Count perform on August 17, 1991 during Lollapalooza...
Possible Break in Anthrax Case
Julian Borger of The Guardian on Anthrax letters prepared under water, says FBI: FBI investigators now suspect that the anthrax-filled letters sent to politicians and media figures in 2001 may have been prepared underwater...
Political Idiocy
Sheldon Richman of The Future of Freedom Foundation on Short-Sighted Bush: Advocates of big government sometimes say that politicians are superior to business people because the latter are shortsighted: they only care about the...
Neocons and Beltway Libertarians
Karen DeCoster on Neocons and Beltway Libertarians: A Tautology: Neocons are allied with their friends in the Beltway Libertarian community, and these deep-seated bonds are puzzling. This has led to Libertarians relentlessly attacking libertarians....
More Advice for George
Karen Kwiatkowski writing for LRC on Some Advice for George: It seems our success with Saddam isn’t very applicable – avoiding the use of WMD is helpful, but freedom of speech, democracy, and fighting...
Back to the Bill of Rights
Richard Lacayo writing for Time Magazine on The War Comes Back Home: On Thursday, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee defeated a White House attempt to give the CIA and the Pentagon new and...
Charlie Liteky
Charlie Liteky writes in An Open Letter to the U.S. Military: By way of introduction, my name is Charlie Liteky, a U.S. citizen, a Vietnam Veteran, and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. However,...