This 1990 New Yorker cartoon perfectly captures the usual media attitude towards government surveillance in the post-9/11 world. Happily, today’s Washington Post blockbuster does not show the same complacency.
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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…..
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.
Cartoon: 24 Types of Libertarian
Biased but very funny…. from cartoonist Barry Deutsch: [h/t Lew Rockwell blog]
Washington Post Drops One of its Best Reporters: Dave Weigel out
Washington Post blogger David Weigel is out after someone exposed some emails he sent to a private group in DC criticizing Matt Drudge, the Washington Examiner, etc. Weigel reportedly offered to resign last night and the Post accepted today. I don’t always agree with Weigel, but he is one of the hardest working journalists I […]
Towards a More Honest Afghan Policy
Good riddance to McChrystal. His role in the coverup of the killing of Pat Tillman alone was enough to qualify him for the Pentagon Rogues Gallery of the new Millennium. Petreaus is better than McChrystal because at least we get to sometimes watch him get overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the BS he […]
Medical Freedom Fighters: The Arnetts of West Virginia
At the Competitive Enterprise Institute dinner in DC last night, I caught up with Dr. Jerome Arnett and met his daughter, Dr. Brenda Arnett. Jerry is a prolific writer – he has done great work on the bogus threat of secondhand smoke and on other abuses of science. He is a pulmonary specialist, so I […]
R R Schoettker
The US congress ceased fulfilling its constitution