Unqualified Offerings

Over at Airstrip One, Emmanuel Goldstein regrets that “Justin Raimondo goes on about warblogs. Doesn’t mention that one of his columnists actually runs a web log. Oh well.” But surely he knows his own editor. Giving his writer pub would complicate his typically manichean picture – it would mean acknowledging that there are bloggers out [...]

Hi Perry: Thank you for your note about my brief mention of the Justin Raimondo versus the Warbloggers affair. Of all the blog responses to Raimondo’s essay, yours most struck me, which makes sense, given what you have noted as our incipient mutual admiration society. I have some issues with what you wrote though, detailed [...]

Virginia Postrel informs me that the Postrel-linking method discussed below does not work in her browser and therefore may not work in others, either. For maximum compatibility, open the source, find the achor name then build the URL as follows:
“http://www.dynamist.com/scene.html#[anchorname]“

Per a report in the Hindustan Times, an office fire yesterday nearly gutted an office building in Islamabad that “housed offices of 21 ministries, government departments, including offices of the Interior Ministry and the main offices of Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau.” Authorities are saying short-circuit but “they did not rule out other causes.” The article references [...]

The strange case of the “Egyptian radio” gets a little stranger, though not, apparently, to the Associated Press’s way of thinking. In a baffling litte item in today’s papers, we are told
Charges have been dropped against the Egyptian graduate student accused of lying to federal investigators about an aviation radio found in his hotel room [...]

Unqualified Offerings has alternately praised and kicked around Justin Raimondo and Instapundit for most of its history. Now they have decided to cut out the middleman, with Raimondo attacking – intemperately as always – the warbloggers and Instapundit deflecting – glibly as so often – Raimondo’s actual arguments. Reynolds somewhat more directly addresses Rothbardian right [...]