How to Interpret This?
According to this article, the latest rage in Iraq is videos of beheadings and truck bombings. The article suggest that people there have been driven to it by the “17…
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Hoppe Off the Air…..Oops…My mistake
What used to be a very bizarre and strange argument against immigration, capped off by psychoanalysis of anyone who might disagree, has been taken off the air at Lew Rockwell.com….
NYT on Iraq: Past, Present, and Future
The “Week in Review” section of today’s New York Times has two very illuminating (and not very cheerful) pieces on Iraq. Mahdi Obeidi, who headed Saddam’s nuclear weapons project, explains…
Gary North, Lew Rockwell, and the Politics of Stoning Heretics & Homosexuals to Death
Gary North Favors Stoning Homosexuals Since there’s seems to be more than a bit of interest in the antics of those on the fever swamp fringes of American political thought…
Cafe Hayek
Don Boudreaux has a short posting on l’Affaire Hoppe. (It’s on the quite educational site that he and Russell Roberts run, www.cafehayek.com.) And for some of those who posted comments…
The New Federalism: Abolish the States
In order to ensure that there be uniformity across the nation, many conservatives have lined up to support a “Federal Marriage Amendment”. For a knockdown defense of federalism against the…
Rhetoric and Liberty
The upcoming Cato University seminar on “The Art of Persuasion: Skills for Everyone” in Quebec is going to be a lot of fun. I hope that others will advertise it,…
An Immigration Policy that Would Exclude Its Author
It’s remarkable to find someone so lacking in awareness of self, or in the ability to perceive himself as others might perceive him, that he would announce an immigration policy…
Politics and the English Language
I’ll be leading a seminar tomorrow (oops! It’s already today.) on writing for the Cato Institute research seminar. The text that will provide a kickoff for our discussion is George…