Put Your Military Where Your Mouth Is
Saying we're staying in Iraq until we get the job done is not cutting it anymore. Merely maintaining current efforts is not going to solve the problem. So, Mr. President, if you're going to talk the...
View ArticleSustainable Development
There is something about this statement which bothers me: "There's no such thing as "sustainable" development. Human progress and individual liberty have advanced on the backs of one unsustainable...
View ArticleThe True Enemy (Revised)
Know your enemy before you go out to fight him. Our enemy is certainly not Islam as a whole. Yet our situation would be little better if it were the radical Islam that most our enemies espouse. Were...
View ArticleThis Is Sad
I was a bit dubious about the democratic electoral chances leading into November. In general, I don't have much affinity for politicians of either side, but merely as a matter of balance I believe it...
View ArticleA Revolution Diverted
By far one of the most daunting and frightening challenges the United States faces abroad is radical Islam. Like communism and fascism in the past, it poses a direct challenge to the open markets and...
View ArticleIncompetence and a Question (POLL)
According to an NYT article, of the 18.4$ billion of reconstruction aid to Iraq, overhead costs, like administration, housing, and paperwork, "has consumed as much as 55 percent of the entire budget...
View ArticleA Potentially Huge Turnaround
For those interested in the passage of gas taxes, one of the biggest opponents to their passage may be about to become one of their greatest advocates: Because of the heated ethanol market, corn prices...
View ArticleOne Way of Coping With Unfavorable Elections
Vermont just played host to, I kid not, a secessionist convention.The First North American Secessionist Convention, billed as the first national gathering of secessionists since the Civil War, included...
View Article(KPB-Global Warming) The William Carbon Tax
The price of oil is looking to plunge again, and with it, most of the progress made thus far in the 'War on Carbon Fuel Consumption.'Alright, the name's a lot less sexy, but seeing as our success on...
View ArticleLove, Don't Hate
So, Vietnam's going nuclear.Atomic energy was also on the agenda. Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko said Russia was hoping to help build Vietnam's first atomic energy plant -- due to be commissioned...
View ArticleIn Defense of Lieberman
The Bush administration has done a terrible job with the occupation of Iraq. Such a terrible job that, were we to go back to the beginning, knowing what I know now, I would have actively opposed the...
View ArticleAnarchist or Islamist?
In Ramadi, the nominal capital of the infamous Anbar province, oft cited as the heart of the Sunni based insurgency, Al Qaeda and its kin have been fast losing ground to American marines and a...
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