When David "Axis of Evil" Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, turned his rhetorical guns on antiwar conservatives and libertarians, this writer included, he ended his peroration against "unpatriotic conservatives" with the declaration...
Only alert readers may have noticed that the Israeli-biased American "Road Map to Peace", already being imposed on the Palestinians, has not even been accepted by Israel's rejectionist government. Asked about it, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that...
When Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post, who earlier did a piece on how the rest of the media were downplaying expressions of affection for Americans among Iraqis (a story several pro-war readers helpfully emailed to me), that the United States seems to be blowing...
It's beggars belief, but it is true. Last week, a group of influential politicians who inhabit the rarefied but influential world of Washington DC think-tanks, proposed that US government officials be given the right to sit in on the European Union's...
I'm shocked – shocked! – but it appears that neither Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld nor General Tommy Franks has read Ludwig von Mises, or even David Hume. Their economic ignorance has led to the only American defeat -- not on the battlefield, but on the...
"You could oversee a bombing mission overseas then break for dinner with the family" – Boeing engineer Roy Smith on the new X-45 unmanned bomber Well, it's about time. I often think to myself, as my frozen dinner rotates in the microwave, "Shouldn't I be...
At first it looked like it was going to be Syria: Baghdad had no sooner fallen, you'll remember, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began glowering in the direction of Damascus. Colin Powell's powwow with Syrian President Bashar Assad cut the War Party off at the...
A fter 9 months of TV-free studies at college, I spent a solid week of vacation in front of the set and its only source of "intellect": cable news. Boy, was I spoiled! My only exposure to world news in those 9 months came from Antiwar.com, Google News, NPR and my...
I knew there was something awfully suspicious about the announcement, a few weeks ago, that most U.S. troops were going to be withdrawn from Saudi Arabia. After all, since when does the Empire hail a major retreat? And now my suspicions have been confirmed.... The...
Is Gordon Brown a Eurosceptic? Well of course he\'s not, but every time that question is asked of him, or the label is tentatively applied to him, what\'s really meant is: the Chancellor\'s not as keen as the Prime Minister to replace Sterling with the Euro. Whether...
