Interesting Website on Eurasian Politics
Thanks to a commentor on one of my postings, I’ve been introduced to a really fascinating web site on Eurasian politics and history: The Argus.
Politics
Whitewashing Murder
The Kennedy Klan, one of the most dysfunctional families ever to stain American public life, has just released a remarkable whitewashing of one of the Klan Patriarch’s worst offenses against…
More on Russian Courage
Andrei Illarionov’s remarkable act of speaking truth to power (I posted on it earlier) has gotten some remarkable coverage in the world press. The New York Times (requires simple registration)…
English-language Blogging on Ukraine
I’ve been reading a blog by a fine writer of English (an American) in Ukraine that’s full of interesting bits of information on goings on there. Le Sabot Post-Moderne is…
Courage in Russia
Andrei Illarionov, one of last high-profile classical liberals with a significant voice in Russian public life, has been removed (New York Times; requires simple registration) by President Putin from some…
Time to Talk About Social Security
We have a chance to have an impact on the economy and political culture of the U.S. for the next hundred years, but only if people of understanding and good…
Cato Helps to Defeat Baseball Subsidies in D.C.
A Cato Institute study, “Caught Stealing: Debunking the Economic Case for D.C. Baseball,” got a lot of attention in the nation’s capital and seems to have sunk the hopes (of…
Something Is Rotting at the Periphery of the Libertarian Movement…..
What’s that terrible smell? It’s coming from a hatred of the United States that has become so strong that it has overpowered any lingering attachment to the ideas of liberty…
Very strange Behavior from the LRC crowd
I (and some of my colleagues) received a very odd little message from a lewrockwell.com columnist named Daniel McAdams: From: McAdams, Daniel [Daniel.McAdams@mail.house.gov] Sent: Thu 12/9/2004 5:07 PM To: Tom…
Is a Completely Centralized Intel System Obviously Better?
I have no sufficiently well informed opinions on the best way to change the intelligence system to announce. But I wonder how if that’s also true of most of the…