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.
Best Comical Response to Wash. Post “Top Secret America” Series?
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…. […]
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 […]