On Wednesday, the 8th-grader-in-chief again pitched the most far-fetched of lies during his speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. They loved it, of course. In the speech, Bush tried to paint a picture of a dark and terrible future if the US does not keep our soldiers killing and dying in Iraq: that if American military forces were to leave, Osama bin Laden and his Islamo-fascists would become the dictators of all the land from Spain to Indonesia. Bush has pushed this...

From the AP: WASHINGTON - The world has shirked its duty to help prosecute Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday. "The international community's effective boycott of Saddam's trial is only harming the Iraqi people, who are now working to secure the hope of justice and freedom that Saddam long denied them," Rice said. The top U.S. diplomat also predicted that the Iraqi elections this week would yield the most democratic government "in the entire Middle East." She did...

The transcript of my interview of Seymour Hersh from December 3rd is being run on Antiwar.com today: Check it out: Iraq: State of the Disunion mp3 stream

And still, only 28% understand that Iraq was unarmed, a point which even Fox News has conceded. That slimy piece of gutter filth, Dick Morris, has slithered out from his dank lair to warn the Democrats from sounding too antiwar - it might cost them the support of the American people:A Fox News poll completed Nov. 30 suggests that while half of Americans would like to see a schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops, a majority feel the war has done good things - and a larger majority feel that...

Remember Bernard Kerik, the former nominee for director of the Department of Homeland Security, who had to withdraw his nomination on the count of the fact that he is a criminal? I saw him on Neil Cavuto tonight, during a discussion of how unbearably long it took for the State of California to get their shit together and kill "Tookie" Williams, speaking favorably about the way law and order is handled in Saudi Arabia where he lived for four years. "You get one appeal within 30 days, and then...

My friend Will Grigg at the New American magazine has a new blog, and he's been writing up a storm. His latest entry, Comply and Submit -- Or Die, which concerns the Federal TSA agent's murder of an unarmed passenger, is spotlighted this weekend at Antiwar.com.

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I got two great interviews with Larisa Alexandrovna and Anthony Gregory. Larisa is a great reporter from Raw Story who apparently has sources very close to the Fitzgerald investigation, and Anthony is an anarchist. Archives at weekendinterviewshow.com. (And soon over there in the right column, too.) An hour later, Karen Kwiatkowski had Al Lorentz on her show, American Forum. Update: My God man! Listen to Al Lorentz describe almost shooting a very small...

Saturday from 6-8 pm ESTon the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Larisa Alexandrovna from Raw Story about the Fitzgerald investigation and related matters. Then in the second hour, my friend Anthony Gregory from the Independent Institute, will return to discuss the question of whether the state really protects anyone at all. Listen Live Archives Then at 9 pm EST, Karen Kwiatkowski, host of the new show American Forum, will be interviewing persecuted non-commissioned officer Al...

From The Onion:In a transcript of an intercom exchange recorded in March 2002, a voice positively identified as the vice president's identifies himself as "the Lord thy God" and promotes the invasion of Iraq, as well as the use of torture in prisoner interrogations. A close examination of Bush's public statements and Secret Service time logs tracking the vice president reveals a consistent pattern, one which links Bush's belief that he had received word from God with Cheney's use of the White...

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....