Karzai Solves Mystery of Afghan Corruption

Afghan frontman Hamid Karzai announced this past weekend that foreigners are to blame for the rampant corruption his country. It is true that foreign aid has helped bring out the worst in many Afghan wheeler-dealers. But Karzai and his cronies would likely be looting regardless of whether Uncle Sam air-dropped billions onto his land. New […]

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70 Years After Pearl Harbor: New Book On FDR’s Lying Path to War

Wednesday is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Americans have still not learned all the details of what the U.S. government knew prior to the attack. The Japanese attack was inexucsable, but Franklin Roosevelt’s actions played a far greater role in that debacle than most Americans realize. Thomas Fleming’s FDR and […]

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Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan

from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (posted online today) Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan by James Bovard American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has […]

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Dilbert Blights 500,000 Lives

I don’t know how many project managers follow Dilbert, but the ones that do (and understand the humor) might be ready for Suicide Watch. Scott Adams has a perfect ear for the absurdities of contemporary American bloviating.

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Super Committee Was a Fraud from the Get Go

From an interview with Press TV earlier today – James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday said that “a lot of folks had high expectations from the congressional super committee to reduce the federal deficit. I figured it would be a fraud […]

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