Pat Buchanan's new piece in the American Conservative goes over some recent survey results from the Arab world. It turns out that I was absolutely right ; ) when I laughingly condemed Bush's scare tactic of bringing up a gigantic Islamo-Fascist Caliphate to rule the world from Spain to Indonesia and beyond as the likely result of an American exit from Iraq. "While only 6 percent agreed with al-Qaeda

Back in August I had an interesting talk with Richard Maybury, an economist of the Austrian school and editor of the financial newsletter Early Warning Report. He is the author of a big idea, actually a model with which to help predict long term trends in global politics and finance. It's called Chaostan, and basically it means that enlighenment ideas of liberty and property never made it past Marx in Germany in their natural spread eastward, that the former Soviet Union is ready to break into...

As you know, the so-called social contract which created the national government provides them the power to prosecute for treason, as it was in the Old World, but at least they made the standards pretty specific. From Article 3 Section 3: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on...

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Here "The small handful of experts on national security law within the government who know about the NSA program say they believe it has made a mockery of the public debate over the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act of 2001 has been widely criticized for giving the government too much power to engage in secret searches and to spy on suspects, and even some Republicans chafed at the idea of giving the government still more surveillance powers under an extended and expanded version. The Patriot Act...

David Ignatius at the Washington Post profiles Cheney's other Cheney, the pro-torture David Addington. He is one of these who takes the phrase "The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States" to mean that James Madison and the boys meant to create a military dictatorship when they wrote the constitution. Maybe he's right. via Laura Rozen.

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented "state's secrets privilege," there is good news. Lukery, proprietor of the excellent blog wot is it good for?, has put in the time and gray matter to piece together what we can learn from what she can say around her gag order. (Which was recently upheld...

Check out these pathetic right-socialist warmonger types trying to claim that Americans aren't bothered by the recent National Security Agency wiretapping scandal. Citing a Rasmussen poll, "NewsBusters" claims, "the nation doesn

Today at Antiwar.com, the great reporter from Balkanalysis.com, Christopher Deliso has an article about another very interesting convergence of the felony case against the vice president's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Please call me Scooter" Libby and the natural, er, civil rights case of FBI translator/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For those who may have fallen behind, it seems the case that many - there are so many, who can keep track? - of the scandals of the Bush II administration are...

What a hell of a year that was, huh? Lots of killing. I'm hoping for less this year, though the number of people who can adequately debunk the State's case for Iran building nukes is down to the Iranians themselves, and Dr. Gordon Prather of Antiwar.com and World Net Daily. ("I'm not a defender of Iran!! It's just that Cheney-Rice are lying about everything," he tells me.) For those not familiar, Prather's case is that there is no evidence, after 2 years of carte blanche inspections by the...

Less killing in '06!

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...

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...

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...