Bush tries mightily to put a positive spin on his many failures as he grovels to the Council on Foreign Relations. Perhaps the most subdued insisting we've heard from him in a while. No questions, please. partial transcript mp3

While reading Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of Murray N. Rothbard, I came across a great bit he had about the ultimate victory of liberty - and I don't mean it in the "you can't stop the expansion of our government" sense that our great leader employs in his embedded war speeches. In fact it was quite the opposite situation. In 1955, while confronting the suicidal call of an ex-communist named Willi Schlamm to instigate a nuclear war with the Soviets and Chinese, Rothbard employed a...

Jesse Walker, one of the few libertarians left over at Reason Magazine, has written a great piece about the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan in the Wilson era and how progressive (as in progressively more and more government until we're all dead) they were. Check it out: "Hooded Progressivism: The secret reformist history of the Ku Klux Klan." Didja know that Harry "Nuke the noncombatants 'till they glow" Truman was a Klansman? Not surprised, huh? Eh, I wasn't either. Hat-tip Anthony...

When I first heard the accusation that FDR had deliberately allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor, on this day in 1941, I thought it impossible. That would be like saying we did it to ourselves. But it turned out that I was wrong. All that it meant was that some individuals did it to others. In this case, Roosevelt and his closest advisors, along with some cooperative officers in the US military, worked provoke the attack and make sure that Admiral Kimmel and General Short remained in the dark....

Named in honor of Bill Hicks' childhood band and the brick weed I was raised on, it's called Stress. It's been put together by Brandon Snider, and will have all kinds of great stuff on it soon.