I'm traveling today, and so there's no real column. I'm on my way to New York, where I'm speaking at the state convention of the Libertarian Party, an event I look forward to: as a longtime libertarian (small-'l'), I have a lot to say, and you'll be reading it next...
Testimony before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004 This brief addresses three areas. First, what mistakes have been made in the Coalition administration of Iraq, and why? Second, what is the current situation? Third, what steps can be taken to...
The American press needs to end its lovey-dovey relationship with the Pentagon. The Pentagon has provided ample evidence that it can propagandize the American people without the help of a lap-dog press. It is not the job of the press to support the troops. That is the...
"Speaking of the Palestinians, they were dealt a lethal blow," exulted a jubilant Ariel Sharon, "It will bring their dreams to an end." Sharon was bragging about his trip to Washington where he bullied Bush into selling out the Palestinians as thoroughly as Neville...
President Bush may never have actually read the memo contained in his President's Daily Brief (and here) titled "Bin Ladin [sic] Determined To Strike in US." The brief has been at the center of a controversy about whether President Bush took appropriate action to...
Perhaps you haven't noticed – certainly the neo-crazies hope you haven't – but we have just experienced a coup d'etat. What's a "coup d'etat"? Well, according to Edward Luttwak, author of Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook, "A coup consists of the...
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Once there was a time when American conservatives defended their country from government. No more. Today conservatives defend Bush’s warmongering neo-Jacobin government at all costs. In a recent column, "Feeling a Draft" (April 15), I reported that the US has now...
"I hope you got a sense of conviction about what we're doing," said the president, as he ended his primetime press conference. We certainly did. Indeed, listening Tuesday night, one must concede the convictions, the earnestness and the resolve of the president that he...
Intentionally or stupidly, President Bush and his neocon overlords are on track for igniting general conflagration in the Middle East. In placing America's stamp of approval on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's annexation of the West Bank, Bush jettisoned a half...
