What Punishment Would Fit?
The Scene of an Apparent Massacre by U.S. Forces in Haditha President Bush’s term for his reaction to the allegations of a deliberate murder of civilians in Haditha is “troubled.”…
Victims of Rights Violations
How Blockable Is the Internet?
Amnesty International has launched a laudable new campaign (Irrepressible.info) to help people to get around restrictions placed by authoritarian or totalitarian states on the free flow of information through the…
Gay Pride March Broken Up by Russian Police
The Gay Pride Parade in Moscow was banned by the maliciously nationalist and bigoted Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, but a brave band of 50 people marched anyway. They were arrested, as…
A Little Noted Anniversary
Forty years ago this past week Chinese civilization came under attack and hundreds of thousands — possibly millions — were murdered. It was called the “Cultural Revolution.” Those deaths were,…
Demonstrations for an Independent Judiciary
Free Egypt God Bless the Egyptian Demonstrators. They have been marching for something of great importance: an independent judiciary. It’s not a natural right. It’s missed by some simple-minded advocates…
Absorbing Immigrants
Roots of American Success My friend Don Boudreaux has a great column on the issue of immigration, “Absorption Nation.” He addresses one narrow claim, viz. that the United States cannot…
Two Years in the Joint for Selling One Joint
The Drug Policy Foundation has a short video on a young man who has been caught up in the drug hysteria in the U.S. How many lives will the drug…
The Bush Record
My colleagues Tim Lynch and Gene Healy do a remarkable job of bringing to light and criticizing the Bush administration’s grab for unlimited power in their paper, “Power Surge: The…
Good news from Iraqi Kurdistan
Followup to an earlier posting on freedom of speech in Iraqi Kurdistan: One of the Iraqi Kurds who had been detained for speaking out in a way that the political…
Support Free Media and Free Speech in Iraqi Kurdistan
I received an email from a journalist I know in Iraqi Kurdistan asking for publicity for the cause of free speech and free media in his country. This essay from…