War, Lies, Scandals and the State

Check out my new article at the Northwest Meridian, a cool alternative print and online publication with a distinct libertarian editorial flavor, taking Oregon state by storm. In the article I reflect on the scandalous year of 2005 and hold out home for a continued revulsion against the government sector among the people. Also, over at LewRockwell.com, I defend our great president, pointing out that at least he didn't lie about sex!!

Despicable Democrats

Oh, how I loathe the Democratic Party. How many times in reference to Iraq, torture, Plame's name, the Military tapping our phones, etc. have I heard a Goddamn Democrat say, "Oh, boo hoo, the President's bad policies are hurting the real war on terrorism." There is no real war on terrorism. The whole thing is a big lie. Though this may be pretty redundant to those who purposely read and think on a regular basis, if this war was ever to be legitimate at all, it would have been a war on al Qaeda...

Eric Garris on War, Peace and the Net

Hey everyone, check out this great speech by Eric Garris, the founder and director of Antiwar.com, at the Perdana Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia about the difference the web has made for those who oppose the warfare state. "U.S. politicians are confused by the Internet. They have for years trumpeted military force as the best vehicle for changing humanity. With the Internet, we see the precise opposite principles and methods in play. Whereas American politicians believe themselves to be...

The Curious Section 126 of the Patriot Act

William Arkin has some bad news: "The Curious Section 126 of the Patriot Act What is it that the National Security Agency began doing after 9/11 that necessitated Presidential authorization for warantless surveillance? We have all learned in the past week that the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978 contains provisions that allow the government to conduct quick reaction surveillance of an individual and go to the court afterwards for a warrant. So what would the NSA need to do...

“We cannot say ‘Peshmerga’ here.”

What do you get when a foreign power, which used to prop up the minority dictator in its colony, turns and overthrows him without a real plan for his replacement? Civil war, that's what. According to the Associated Press, under the misleading title "Keeping Iraq Intact": "Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's...

Re: Bush

Thanks, Scott, for the kind plug. I have a couple points regarding some of the defenders of Bush's secret surveillance. Some defenders of the surveillance powers have argued that a FISA court decision from 2002 effectively conceded that the president has the general authority to conduct wiretaps without a warrant. But the FISA court simply does not have the constitutional authority to grant such sweeping powers to the president. We might wonder why the administration has not relied more on...

Nepotism Tag

This may be old hat to some of you, but I am constantly amazed at the amount of nepotism that goes on in our government. Today I was hit by a freaky new one that I had no idea about previously.

Bush’s Secret Surveillance State

Anthony Gregory, over at the Future of Freedom Foundation, describes the worse - deadly - communist police state with all the deadly Frankenstein controls:"The NSA spying program is especially egregious, given that the administration circumvented the already lower standards for surveillance set forth by FISA and unleashed an arm of the military to spy on Americans

April Glaspie Redux

Remember how the justification for the US government's permanent blockade and eventual aggressive invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the idea that Saddam Hussein was in defiance of the cease fire agreement that ended his war with the United Nations in 1991? For the sake of making the real point of this post, we can neglect the fact that, as former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has explained,"Within months of this resolution being passed

Today’s Joseph and Mary would face 15 checkpoints

"The road from Nazareth to Bethlehem begins by dropping down from a ridge south of Galilee into the Jezreel Valley, looking out across Jordan and Samaria. It is a 90-mile route defined by the journey of Mary and Joseph 2,000 years ago, although Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are unhelpful about the exact route, and the Bible does not mention the traditional nativity scene donkey. Any direct route that foot passengers would have taken in the era of Caesar Augustus, retraced today, inevitably...

Nitwits on Parade

The great libertarian journalist and author Jim Bovard, author of the forthcoming Attention Deficit Democracy has a new blog and his latest is about a subject Jim's regular readers are probably all too familiar, the evil wannabe National Police Force known as the Department of Homeland Security. Citing that Washington Post article from Thursday, Bovard writes"The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Merry Christmas Everybody

As Bill Hicks said to Mark Wilks, "If you don't do anything else, get to be friends with your family. Because at the end of it that's all you've got." (Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution Booth/Bertin p.405)