Unqualified Offerings

The big libertarian tent gets smaller and less obnoxious. Jesse Walker explains.

Reader Sven tips me to a gun that, if not smoking, smolders, an interview with Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid of the Army Transportation Corps, now heading into retirement. (I hope there’s a lump sum option and he’s already collected.) Excerpt:
Scheid said the planners continued to try “to write what was called Phase 4,” or the [...]

So, do I think that the Powers That BeTM are actively planning a war of annilhation, as their rhetoric suggests? (See previous item.) Not quite. I think the rhetoric makes a war of annhilation more possible than it has been. But I think what our rulers are actually doing is overengineering the political conditions for [...]

The Siftung Leo Strauss on the concertina Republican rhetoric has made of history: you have the American Civil War on one end, World War II on the other, and you squish them together to make martial if unfortunately circuslike music:
This then is the bookend to the Islamofascist meme — both are a siren call to [...]