Rackets and Stuff
William Marina, a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Emeritus Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University The Marines' 'How To' Handbook for Empire: Americans love a good “How To” book, and the...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Lying Down On The Job and Just Plain Lying
Dr. Ivan Eland, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, on Laziness in the Face of Mortal Danger The laziness with which...
A Little Q and A
Be sure to check out this question and answer satire – Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq? – sure to piss off chickenhawks, neo-cons and those pro-war advocates who've been making mad,...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
Welcome home, soldier Posted: 2004-03-31 20:40:00.000 Medical evacuations in Iraq war hit 18,000 Posted: 2004-03-31 20:49:00.000 New York Times and Washington Post Failed Public in Iraq War Reporting Posted: 2004-03-31 20:53:00.000 522 U.S. Soldiers...
Two More From the Independent Institute
Dr. Robert Higgs, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute on Can Bullets and Bombs Establish Justice in Iraq? President George W. Bush has said on many occasions that he seeks...
Independent Institute Commentaries
Dr. Robert Higgs, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute on Is Bush Unhinged? Before you conclude that I myself must be unhinged even to raise such a...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
Former President Carter – There was no need for that war Posted: 2004-03-22 17:17:00.000 New Analysis of Depleted Uranium in Iraq Posted: 2004-03-23 20:32:00.000 US business group slams Bush ‘deception’ over Iraq war Posted:...
Being the Government Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Being the Government Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry The apology of Richard Clarke, the chief counterterrorism adviser to the Clinton and Bush administrations, for the U.S. government’s failure to protect its...
Smedley Darlington Butler: Maverick Major General
March 24, 2004 Smedley Darlington Butler: Maverick Major General American Military University HM261, Military Biography by James Landrith Smedley Darlington Butler was born on July 30, 1881 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Butler was the...
Quote of the Day
From Jim Henley: As a libertarian, I believe we are always going to be governed by fools and knaves. But these are the wrong damn fools and knaves. (Glove-taker-offer furiously nods in agreement)