The Washington Post series on “Top Secret America” by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin is off to a great start. I am shocked to learn that the federal government has little or no idea what the hell it is doing. I expect some conservatives will want to indict the Post reporters and editors for treason…. […]
Archive | July, 2010
What the FBI Does Best
It is unfortunate that few of the nation’s editorial writers have ever understood the FBI as well as Handelsman did within weeks after 9/11…..
The New American Credo
Weren’t things supposed to be different after Obama was elected? [cartoon from the New Yorker, 2002]
Davi Barker: A Libertarian Rebuttal – 24 Types of Authoritarian
Davi Barker has put together a very amusing retort and parody to the 24 Types of Libertarian cartoon by Barry Deutsch. Davi Barker’s blog is here.
“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” – my Pennslyvania speech…
Now online here: the video of my “Freedom and the War on Terrorism” speech last month in Bernville, Pennsylvania. I want to thank Bob Bowers, who organized this libertarian supper club, for inviting Jacob Hornberger and I to talk there. The audience was excellent – lots of hardliners full of fire-and-brimstone. The question-and-answer exchanges after […]
POLITICAL SHOCKER! A Whiff of Truth on Afghanistan!
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele blasted Obama’s Afghan troop surge last night at a Connecticut fundraiser. Steele asked: “If [Obama’s] such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? Because everyone who has tried, over a […]
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Torture
Phil Giraldi makes an excellent observation on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in his Antiwar.com column today: New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her “judicial hero.” Barak is sometimes described as a liberal, but a review of his decisions reveals that he has always sided with the […]
