Yes Virginia, The Fed Is Santa Claus

Norm Singleton passes along this helpful government Web page: "The Federal Reserve For Kids." You see, kids, we live in a world where, given the normal nature of things and the way people would interact with one another in business if left to their own devices, everything just gets more and more expensive. It makes sense, you see? All human effort in the marketplace, put together, has the effect of making everything harder to afford. It's just the way the world works. What costs $1 today will...

Federal Judge Admits Informant Inside OKCBOMB Plot – Morris Dees of the SPLC Implicated

Read the ruling [.pdf] by United States District Judge Dale A. Kimball in the case of the federal torture and murder of Kenneth Trentadue. The Judge confirms the existance of the informant inside the bomb plot, and that individual's ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Just wait, it's Strassmeir. I bet you ten bucks. Hat tip: Chris Emery UPDATE: The Judge has re-worded his ruling. JD Cash, McCurtain Daily Gazette: "Late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball of Utah altered an order he...

Soldiers’ Regrets

Check out this video from the BBC, via Information Clearing House, about the 130 mile march of antiwar Iraq veterans from Mobile, Alabama to St. Bernard's Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana: We're Sorry: Former US soldiers on the personal cost of war in Iraq. It begins with a young man explaining how isolated he feels since returning home, and his stress over seeing his best friend killed and accidentally running down a child with his truck. Then we see a view of the rag-tag group of marchers on...

Gancarski: Swing and a Miss

Remember that goofball Anthony Gancarski who got fired from AWC because his articles were pointless and stupid when they weren't putting Michael "Machiavelli's Ghost" Ledeen on the side of truth, and who, upon his dismissal, immediately went and started writing for David Horowitz at the very pro-war FrontPageMag? Well, he apparently decided he could shine up that reputation a little by slamming my man Jim Bovard and his new book Attention Deficit Democracy in the Washington Times. The review...

Pipes gets it wrong

when he says, "I wish Iraq well, but I as a foreign policy analyst from the United States am not willing to take responsibility for what takes place in Iraq." It is your responsibility, not simply for being an American, but because you pushed it.

Margolis gets it right

when he says, "The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as even Bush admits, has become an incubator, magnet, and call to arms for anti-American jihadists across the Muslim world." Of course, it would be easier (and cheaper) if we just learned from the mistakes of the past, or at least...

This Man

Via Scott Horton, the human rights attorney (no relation): Eric Haney, the former command sergeant major of Delta Force, and a key advisor to CBS

Legalize Immigration!

"Build a wall!" "Jail their employers!" "Hire more cops" How many times have you heard the old refrain: "But they're illegal immigrants!" Well... So-Fucking-What? You might have noticed the "law" around here is just a bunch of bullshit thuggery cloaked in the PR of Madison's old coup. People are people. They all have rights, such as to travel, contract for work, a place to live etc. "Live and let live. Anyone who doesn't accept that, I say take 'em out back and shoot the motherfucker!" -...