From David Beito at Liberty and Power: As media and political elites continue to demonize Ron Paul for his comments in the debates, it is remembering that another candidate, who said much the same thing, once came within a hair of winning the Republican presidential nomination. In 1950, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio firmly explained to dumbfounded interviewers on ‘Meet the Press’ why he opposed sending more U.S. troops to Europe. He condemned the deployment as encirclement and warned that it...

The rest split the other half. McRomney, 2nd and third place, are way behind. Take that Warbloggers.

I just added two rather interesting articles about the Middle-East mess to my blog: Wiping whom off the map? A stupid war Check them out. Enjoy!

Check out this article in the Guardian which claims that: 1) the military solution back in favour as Rice loses out and 2) the President 'not prepared to leave conflict unresolved'. Yet another confirmation that the war against Iran is "on".

for today: First hour: I'm playing the audio of Dr. Ron Paul at Google headquarters from last Friday. Second hour: I hate government a lot - slight chance of a good interview. Listen here 11am-1pm central. Mp3 here.

Says this lady in the Post. Do-gooder liberals; the only thing worse is one that becomes a right-wing defense contractor lobbyist/think tank/Pentagon warmonger.

This article is based on a speech entitled ‘War, Foreign Policy and Empire, The Changing Political Dynamic,’ which the author delivered at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s June 1—4, 2007, conference entitled "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Affairs and Civil Liberties’ in Reston, Virginia. According to a CBS/New York Times poll from May, 72 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s handling of Iraq. This includes 40 percent of Republicans. Sixty-one percent of Americans say the United...

That Bill Kristol has no shame at all. None. Does he have any kids? Doesn't he care that they will know what a steaming piece of shit he is?

(cross posted from my blog) One of the most absurd accusations against Iran has been that Tehran is secretly arming (and even possibly training) the anti-Imperial resistance forces in Iraq. Why is this an utterly absurd accusation? Because as Robert Dreyfuss explains it in his many excellent articles (see here, here and here) the USA and Iran are supporting the same side in this war: the Maliki government. They are also the only ones to support it, by the way. Even the Shias of Muqtada al-Sadr...

I find myself in agreement with the freaking National Review who apparently find themselves forced to defend Ron Paul from the smears of the sloppy "journalists" at the Politico and the rest of the Warbots that Alex Jones had successfully managed to put his foolish words in Paul's mouth in this interview when in fact he did not. Why Dr. Paul would even give Jones the opportunity to try is beyond me. Jones has made it quite clear that his only use for Paul is to try to get him to say Jones is...

Today I am publishing the second interview in my new series "Saker interviews" (which began with the Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery) with a Q&A email exchange with Jonathan Cook, a British journalist who lives in occupied Palestine and who recently wrote a book, entitled 'Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State', which was published by Pluto Press in Britain in April and in the United States in July 2006 (click here for more info on the book). Jonathan, a...

Thanks to David Griffus.

Ah, our old friends the Utilitarians. These are people who believe that, if something does more good than harm, it's OK. It may do harm, but nonetheless, it also does good - therefore, we like it. To put it in more technical terms, from Wikipedia: "Utilitarianism is the ethical doctrine that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility." And what action am I referring to? Thought you'd never ask. I read this story courtesy of Slashdot today. Here is...

She and John "Breck Girl" Edwards were caught live scheming to exclude their competition live right in front of them right after the debate! What jerks. Watch video here. Thanks LRC.