What do you get when a foreign power, which used to prop up the minority dictator in its colony, turns and overthrows him without a real plan for his replacement? Civil war, that's what. According to the Associated Press, under the misleading title "Keeping Iraq Intact": "Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's...

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Anthony Gregory, over at the Future of Freedom Foundation, describes the worse - deadly - communist police state with all the deadly Frankenstein controls:"The NSA spying program is especially egregious, given that the administration circumvented the already lower standards for surveillance set forth by FISA and unleashed an arm of the military to spy on Americans

Remember how the justification for the US government's permanent blockade and eventual aggressive invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the idea that Saddam Hussein was in defiance of the cease fire agreement that ended his war with the United Nations in 1991? For the sake of making the real point of this post, we can neglect the fact that, as former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has explained,"Within months of this resolution being passed

"The road from Nazareth to Bethlehem begins by dropping down from a ridge south of Galilee into the Jezreel Valley, looking out across Jordan and Samaria. It is a 90-mile route defined by the journey of Mary and Joseph 2,000 years ago, although Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are unhelpful about the exact route, and the Bible does not mention the traditional nativity scene donkey. Any direct route that foot passengers would have taken in the era of Caesar Augustus, retraced today, inevitably...

The great libertarian journalist and author Jim Bovard, author of the forthcoming Attention Deficit Democracy has a new blog and his latest is about a subject Jim's regular readers are probably all too familiar, the evil wannabe National Police Force known as the Department of Homeland Security. Citing that Washington Post article from Thursday, Bovard writes"The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

As Bill Hicks said to Mark Wilks, "If you don't do anything else, get to be friends with your family. Because at the end of it that's all you've got." (Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution Booth/Bertin p.405)

The State, that is.

Boy, I can tell already, I'm going to end up using that title often. In this case, what's got my blood all polluted with stress chemicals is the fact that the sub-human criminals who make up the US Senate have caved to the president, who, by the way, has no power over them whatsoever, and reauthorized the PATRIOT Act for another 6 months. The Wilsonian progressives and their 17th amendment have screwed us again.

Gary North on the joys and pains of being addicted to LRC:"Oh, yes, it started out innocently enough. Just click a few links. Read a few free articles. Nothing to it. It's free. Then, the next day, I did it again. And the next day. It got worse, of course. It always does. A free search engine at the bottom of the page. Looking for something? You can find it here fast. Then click another link. Nothing to it. Then I spotted Top 10. In America, few readers can resist Top 10 articles. I clicked....

According to a report last night on ABC News about the government employee unions striking the transit system in New York City: First of all the strike is over the fact that the Gubmint wants them to pay 6% toward their pension instead of the 2% they're paying now. And better, and what makes me feel like blogging is that the transit workers are already making an average of $23,000, which is above the government average of $20,000, which itself is far above the salary of the average private...

"No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to sound a moderate alarm...but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present... I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD."-William Lloyd Garrison hat tip: Chance

When I first heard that socialist Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia (with a reported 51% majority in a crowded first round vote, I thought, "Oh crap, here comes the coup." It was just 2002 when the US nearly got him elected by threatening to cut off all aid if he won. Hubris, it would seem, breeds defiance. Morales ran on a platform based on ending Bolivian involvment in the US government's eradication program. According to his Wikipedia entry:Morales is the left-wing leader of...

Well, if it ain't one darn thing then it's another. My friend and radio partner Gabriel Delaguera has gone and got himself suspended from the local co-op station for a few weeks. He says the guy filling in for him is a Red and we wouldn't get along. So... we're down to just the KAOS Report until at least a couple of weeks into the new year... Maybe I'll have more time to write.

To try to stop the Times from printing the story about the military National Security Agency spying on Americans, literally summoning the paper's editors to the oval office to plead with them. But why? Jonathan Alter has the answer. Via Laura Rozen.