The American Conservative has posted my piece on Cheney’s revelation that he is exempt from federal law regarding national security secrets. Here are a few paragraphs from the piece: The “my wish is the law’s command
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I’m speaking Wednesday (3/22) in Washington
The Liberty Coalition has kindly invited me to talk about Attention Deficit Democracy on Wednesday evening (3/22). They will be meeting at the at Skewers Restaurant, near Dupont Circle. If you are going to attend, please RSVP to Michael Ostrolenk, the national director of the Liberty Coalition. Here are the details -Liberty Coalition presents: A Transpartisan […]
The Patriot Act & Attention Deficit Democracy
The Future of Freedom Foundation is distributing an op-ed I wrote on the Patriot Act renewal. The article is also now online at the Southwest News Herald. Some other newspapers may pick up the piece in the coming days. I stretched so far to reach an upbeat ending that I may have strained my right […]
Thanks to Laissez Faire Books!
Laissez Faire Books designated Attention Deficit Democracy as the winner of the March 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty. I greatly appreciate the award and all the fine work that LFB has done to advance liberty for so many years. Laissez Faire has consistently had the finest collection of books on liberty, year after […]
American Conservative prints my hit on Lawless Dick Cheney
The new issue of American Conservative (3/27/06) contains my hit on Cheney’s latest lawlessness. Here is the first paragraph: “The biggest surprise from the shooting of Harry Worthington was Dick Cheney’s announcement that he is entitled to declassify national security secrets. Such declassifications raise the question of whether the president and vice president possess unlimited discretion […]
The Regime Crimes Office
As part of my penance for Lent, I was reading a recent budget briefing for the State Department, tottering on the edge of my chair with each gust of hot air. I came across an intriguing comment by Ambassador James Jeffrey, “the Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq.” He chirped about the Bush […]
A Great Quote to Ponder
I came across a quote from the great historian Raul Hilberg today, illustrating how the Rule of Law can degenerate into tyranny: As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, “There […]
