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...
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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,...
No Guardrails?
Radley Balko writing for FOXNews.com on No Guardrails? Ten years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a now-famous unsigned editorial by Daniel Henninger (search) entitled "No Guardrails." The editorial iterated many of the worries...
Honor and Obligation
Protalion.Com on Bush's real military record: "In these days of guys who never fought in Vietnam launching aggressive and destabilizing attacks on other countries, it is interesting to see what George W. Bush did...
Waxman Ties Halliburton to Terrorism
Truthout.org has a letter from Representative Henry Waxman to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld alleging that Halliburton has extensive ties to terrorism. Rep Waxman questions the wisdom of awarding the corporation lucrative contracts in light of...
Smart Park
Tina Daunt of the Los Angeles Times on 'Smart Park' Is Keeping Watch: To civic planners in Glendale, Palmer Park has everything a recreation area needs — kiddie swings, walking trails and infrared sensors...