No Shit. Via Justin Raimondo

Jim Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy explains in the LA Times that to be a terrorist is to be anyone the state feels like messing with. President Bush and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary "terrorist surveillance program." And polls show that most Americans support permitting the government to tap the phone calls and e-mails of those considered "suspicious." But what exactly does that...

Remember back in August when Vanity Fair ran that great article about Sibel Edmonds called "An Inconvenient Patriot"? Part of the story was about how, as part of her work translating for the FBI, Sibel had overheard American Turkish Council types bragging about bribing the Speaker of the House, "Denny boy" Hastert, into withdrawing a House resolution condeming Turkey for the Armenian genocide. (Murderous governments condeming each other for 90-year-old pogroms seems a bit silly anyway, no?) In...

Big surprise.

says Pat Buchanan.

Shauna Kay and myself will discuss news and such from 5-7pm central on 95.9/92.7 FM in Austin and streaming live at KAOS959.com. Update: archives of Tuesday's show available here (very quiet).

Tom Hennessy, Long Beach Press-Telegram The real question is, 'What took 'em so long?'

From the National Review: "In between our last two posts I went to Drudge to see what was happening in the world. The lead story was about a ship disaster in the Red Sea. From the headline picture, it looked like a cruise ship. I therefore assumed that some people very much like the Americans I went cruising with last year were the victims. I went to the news story. A couple of sentences in, I learned that the ship was in fact a ferry, the victims all Egyptians. I lost interest at once, and...

Congress's borrowing, spending, and counterfeiting. by Dr. Ron Paul

In his new article for TomPaine.com, "Washington's Iraq Blindness," Robert Dreyfuss, author of the book Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, continues to demonstrate why he is one of our country's greatest reporters. "The Iraq that exists in President Bush

Here is how to know if George Bush is lying: There is an assertion coming out of his mouth: "This terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks." Now come the facts: "The National Security Agency's secret domestic spying hasn't nabbed any Al Qaeda agents in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress yesterday.Mueller told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agents get "a number of leads from the NSA," but he made it clear Osama...

Anybody know some good business strategies for cashing in on inflation?

All libertarians know about Crisis and Leviathan - not just the great book by Robert Higgs, but the simple principle too: when bad things happen government almost always benefits, and further, the "ratchet effect" makes it so that when government power grows it is nearly impossible to get the lost liberty and money back - nevermind the lives, death is pretty much permanent. This principle applies not just to the domestic powers of government over us, but, of course, to the subjects of our...

I was just going through a list of a bunch of hilarious clips of Sarah Silverman and saw this blog entry: "Comedy Central said Monday it has ordered six episodes of a half-hour series starring Sarah Silverman. The show, tentatively titled "The Sarah Silverman Program," is set to premiere in the summer." The clips on that site (not sure if it's her site or a fan thing or what) are great. See especially, "You're Dying."