Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
Brian Doherty, author of the just-released Radicals for Capitalism, is interviewed. Excerpt:

Q: What’s a brief definition of libertarianism?
A: The belief that government, if it has any purpose at all – and there are some libertarians who think it doesn’t – then that purpose is only to protect its own [...]

Apparently Wolf Blitzer introduced a segment with this query . . .
Now, with two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups in the region, is there a growing chance the United States could find itself at war with Iran?
“Find itself” at war with Iran? Like, “ZOMFG, all of a sudden I’m bombing another country! And all I [...]

By Mona
According to BBC News:

…the US has warned the European Union that ongoing inquiries into secret CIA flights within Europe linked to the black [prison] sites are threatening intelligence ties between Europe and the US.
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The investigations “have not been helpful with respect to necessary co-operation between the United States and Europe,” John [...]

By Mona
Count me as a huge fan of the MSNBC host. For he does stuff like this, smacking down the historically illiterate Secretary of State when she utters manifestly erroneous factoids about FDR, his Congress, and WWII (yeah, I know it is shocking, but BushCo is still stuck in that era) in [...]

Dispatch from Elvis Costello’s world:
He said he heard about a couple
living in the USA
He said they traded in their baby for a
Chevrolet
Except it’s a Dodge Intrepid. (Thanks – natch – to the Costello mailing list.)

Man, some conservative bloggers ought to buy Stupid-Abatement packages to offset their writing on this Al Gore’s House business. Wizbang allows a fact I did not know, that Gore buys as much “green power” for his mansion as possible, only to call this a bad thing! because
This is a zero-sum game, folks. The more of [...]

By Thoreau
Good news for those who fear genetically modified food:  A strain of “super salmon”, that can grow to be more than 20 times larger than their wild counterparts, only achieve their super growth in the conditions of a “fish farm.”  In a special cage designed to mimic the wild they are typically about twice [...]

By Mona
Jim Henley holds a reputation as a sophisticated commentator and a fellow who know his way around the Intertubes. So, it is with sadness — nay, shock — that one observes his making recourse to Wikipedia, when everyone who is anyone has moved on to Conservapedia. This fine new online [...]

So like all lazy bloggers, I pulled a link from Wikipedia just now, on Ludwig von Mises. But at the top of the page, under the title (”Ludwig von Mises”), is the subhead
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bu-but! It’s not from Wikipedia, it’s in Wikipedia. But it’s also “from” if you look at it a certain [...]

Al Gore uses a lot of electricity. Al Gore buys carbon offsets. Libertarians who take anthropogenic global warming seriously – count me among them – generally favor markets in emissions over hard regulatory targets for individual homes and businesses. That way people and companies can decide to conserve or offset or buy unused capacity as [...]