I read over on Steve Gordon's blog that Angela Keaton is planning to seek an at-large seat on the Libertarian National Committee. Now, mostly I'm the kinda guy who figures that if I just write and rant the right things, the rest of the world will just work itself out. I guess it counted as taking part in electoral politics when I was Michael Badnarik's foreign policy advisor in 2004, but not really. It was education, with a specifically targeted audience. Now, I think it is time to finally...

What happens if agents of the US national government want you to become a snitch and you refuse? Off to Guantanamo with you!! The Washington Post tells the story of two men who were kidnapped on suggestion from the British MI-5 in the African state of Gambia simply for refusing to be their tools: When they arrived on Nov. 8, they were detained by Gambian and U.S. intelligence operatives, who interrogated them again, this time for a month, British and U.S. documents show. Then two of the men,...

So says William F. (wonder what that stands for) Buckley about the Great Leader. "it's important that we acknowledge in the inner councils of state that it (the war) has failed, so that we should look for opportunities to cope with that failure.'' Wow, since Bush has waged war on the Bill of Rights since taking office, that must mean he's in deep shit.

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...

An Enemy of the State You can call me what you care to, You can lend me love or hate, But here

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...

PEN American Center, "the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world

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...

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.

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...

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

Larisa Alexandrovna is pissed at the AP. It seems they've never learned the most basic natural law: Don't steal.

Tune in 95.9 or 92.7 FM or listen live at KAOS959.com 6pm EST, we'll be discussing the civil war in Iraq, and the likelyhood of war with Iran. RobertDreyfuss.com Update: Here is the mp3.

"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!" -...