Cripes!

Thanks again to LRC for the link.

Says Phil Giraldi in his new entry at the Huffington Post.

This is what happens to your culture during war. Rape, torture, murder, collectivist bigotry.

for today: 1st hour: Vineyard Saker. 2nd hour: Maybe Gareth Porter, maybe Gene Healy, probably just me. Listen here. MP3 here.

before he was against him. Jesus Christ. If I was Hitch, I'd put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger.

Scott here keeps me up to date. Antiwar.com and LRC and others are essential, but his show alone has become an indispensable part of my current events education. Also, I have the advantage of being able to ask him for more reading assignments. Any way, I've been wanting to write about Iran for a while now, as well as about the whole nuclear problem. Thanks to Scott for helping me with this piece: An article on the serious possibility of nuclear terror, and what Americans should do about it.

"I’m perplexed by anyone who still hates Clinton more than Bush. I’ve seen this in libertarian circles. "I actually didn’t hate Bush right away. I didn’t like him or respect him. He was the president, after all. But I didn’t loathe him the way I did Clinton . So I can see why, at one point, people might have still hated Clinton more. . . . " Read the rest of my new article in Strike the Root.

AP: A state lawmaker who opposed a law giving Texans a stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force shot a man at the house he is building in Houston, the police said. The lawmaker, Representative Borris L. Miles, a Democrat, told the police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the house on Sunday when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal copper wiring. Mr. Miles confronted them, and one threw a pocketknife at him, said Victor Senties, a police spokesman....

Dear friends, I  just published an analysis of Iranian options in case of attack by the USA for the website Axis of Logic. Please check it out and let me know what you think either here, on the Stress Blog, or on my blog. Cheers, VS

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Thanks to Lew Rockwell for the link to this footage along with the rest of the stuff I've been poaching from him lately.

George Stephanopolous is a jerk. The look on his face when Ron talks about Americans' wish to be free of state oppression I think is a great snapshot of what it means to be a smug, full of shit, Ivy League, worshiper of state power - like the rest of them. Go Ron! Go!

Lew Rockwell has the scoop.

Liebe Mutter und Vater: They let me wear a really neat uniform, and told me how it would set me apart from everybody else. Just think: When I'm wearing the State's uniform, I'm essentially untouchable — literally: Any common citizen who touches me in any way can be charged with "aggravated battery." I can demand to see anybody's ID at any time, and arrest those who refuse to show me their papers; in fact, I can even arrest those who cooperate, if they ask to see my ID. And if someone...