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Apologetics for “Death of a State”

This Was No Cause for Rejoicing: It Matters Which State Replaces Which In comments and discussion on an earlier posting, a commenter posed a query about a low moment in…

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Apologetics for “Death of a State”

This Was No Cause for Rejoicing: It Matters Which State Replaces Which In comments and discussion on an earlier posting, a commenter posed a query about a low moment in…

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Apologetics for “Death of a State”

This Was No Cause for Rejoicing: It Matters Which State Replaces Which In comments and discussion on an earlier posting, a commenter posed a query about a low moment in…

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Update on Trial of Saudi Reformists

A kind soul recently directed me to an article in the Arab News that updates the story of the trial of Matrouk al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamid, and Ali al-Domeini in Saudi…

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A Portrayal of Americans That Is Unfortunately Common Abroad

“I was born in Arkansas, in probably the hardest region of the state. I’ve always had to do with weapons. I personally own 75 guns.” —Darylle Wagnon, owner of a…

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Updated Study on Homeland Security Waste

My former colleague and long-time friend Veronique de Rugy has produced an updated version of her excellent paper on the hemmorhaging of money at the Department of Homeland Security.

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Big Government Conservatism

Ryan Sager of the New York Post has an insightful column on the rise of big government conservatism.

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Independent Judiciary

Sir Edward Coke, Champion of the English Common Law I’m at the University of North Carolina where I’ll spend the next few days moderating what should be (my moderation notwithstanding)…

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The Best Commentary Yet on the Schiavo Case

Jacob Hornberger has the most sensible commentary on the much discussed Terri Schiavo case. I don’t know enough about the details of the case (and the facts of the case…

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For This George Tenet Got a Medal?

CNN on President Bush’s commission on WMD: No Weapons of Mass Destruction. No Mobile Weapons Labs. No uranium importation program. No credible threat to the U.S. Thanks, Mr. Tenet. Thanks…

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