The McCain stampede is on, even before the South Carolina election results are in. As I predicted in my election night column about the New Hampshire primary, "Like rats leaping from a sinking ship, the political hacks and neoconservative apparatchiks who latched on...
Russian Developments and Austrian Absurdities
My clip files hold news stories from as far back as last September parroting government predictions that the taking of Grozny by the patriotic forces of the Fatherland was imminent. When former Gen. William Odom told me in December that the Russian army is still...
McCain Rocks the Vote
The astonishing rise of Senator McCain in the American presidential race has prompted the pundits to examine his life story and career. Inevitably, there is lots of stuff about the war hero, campaign finance reformer and anti-tobacco missionary. McCain is also known...
Who Killed Pavle Bulatovic?
The assassination of Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, by gunmen inside a Belgrade restaurant throws the spotlight once again on the former Yugoslavia and dramatizes the developing crisis. For Bulatovic was a key component of Milosevic's ruling...
Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968): Progressive and Revisionist
TERMINOLOGICAL FOREWORD It is best to clear up a few conceptual issues before looking at the thought of Walter Karp. The first question is: What is republican theory? We have to ask questions like that these days, in this country, because most people...
Hands Off Austria!
In Vienna, an eerie sight: 20,000 leftists marched on the conservative People's Party headquarters protesting the entry of Austria's Freedom Party into the government and supporting the European Union's threat of sanctions. According to the New York Times, "some...
The Absence of the War Issue
I wish I could share Justin Raimondos essential optimism that Pat Buchanan will be able to make war and interventionism a viable issue at some point during the current election season. I have, well, issues with Pat. I disagree with some of the stands and...
Bush Debacle Augers GOP Crack-Up
It wasn't even close. While the Bushian spinmeisters would have us believe that New Hampshire is but a bump on an otherwise smooth road inevitably leading to the coronation of Bush II, McCain's New Hampshire triumph is a major upset: with considerably less money than...


