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Kurdish Evenings, Baghdad Days

I had dinner again last night as the guest of Mr. Hussain Sinjari, who is working to promote a classical liberal campaign of religious toleration in Iraq. Once again, lots…

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Iraqi Education

More interesting meetings today. I made my presentation on education and got a lot of head nodding when I talked about using examples to teach about limited government, the separation…

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The Palace

I was over for a briefing at the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Saddam’s main palace today. It was interesting and useful. A lot of effort is being put into…

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Education for Liberty and Limited Government

I was at the University of Baghdad yesterday, where we (other foreign participants in a conference on civic education) met with the university president, some of the deans, and some…

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Baghdad

Well, I arrived in Baghdad today. It’s got that shabby totalitarian look about it, thanks to decades of grandiose “planning” and rule by psychopathic thieves. (It reminds me of the…

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The Battle Plan of al Qaeda in Iraq

Here is the text of the letter from Abu Mus’abal-Zarkawi, as released by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Very chilling. I hope that it has some effect on the leaders of…

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Jefferson and Madison go to Iraq

I’m off to Iraq and packing what I hope will be a powerful weapon for good, 500 copies of the pocket edition of the American Declaration of Independence and the…

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“Evil can’t win, can it?”

From the New York Times (may require registration) following the suicide bombings of February 10 and 11 in Iraq that killed more than 100 people: So far more than 300…

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“Evil can’t win, can it?”

From the New York Times (may require registration) following the suicide bombings of February 10 and 11 in Iraq that killed more than 100 people: So far more than 300…

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“Evil can’t win, can it?”

From the New York Times (may require registration) following the suicide bombings of February 10 and 11 in Iraq that killed more than 100 people: So far more than 300…

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