Archive | February, 2010

My Early Optimism on the War on Terror & Civil Liberties

I had forgotten about the following riff until stumbling across it a few days ago. In late September 2001, Reason magazine asked a handful of folks “to discuss which civil lliberties they thought were most at risk in what has been called America’s first 21st century war.” They published the responses in an article entitled, […]

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Washington Post: Subjugation as “Apple Pie”

“How Can Apple Pie Suddenly Turn Bad?” reads the headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post. The article talks of the tragic development that Obama’s health care plan appears to be sinking. The fact that Americans would object to increased political control over health care is so completely inconceivable to Washington Post reporters […]

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