Unqualified Offerings

I can’t believe Amir Taheri is still around. I thought I disposed of him months ago. Now Arthur Silber has to pick up where I left off.

by Thoreau
I just realized that this fine blog lacks a thread devoted to the astronaut love triangle.  I really don’t have anything insightful to say about it, but it just seems wrong not to have a thread about it.  Especially since many libertarians are space enthusiasts, or at least scifi enthusiasts.
Once upon a time I [...]

A few more thoughts on the Lieutenant Watada court-martial, based on discussion here and at Obsidian Wings. A lot of this is more about the ethics of the case than the legality of it.
Andrew and others worry about Watada’s action flouting civilian control of the military. This is a bedrock principle of American polity and [...]

As Thoreau notes, the DODIG’s report (summary pdf) on the Feith Fairytale Factory was released today. One thing that bugs me is the news outlets that titled John Burns’ article on the report for AP with some version of “inappropriate but not illegal,” as the Cleveland Plain Dealer did. That’s praising with faint damnation. “Not [...]

Nobody here will be the least bit surprised by the Pentagon Inspector General’s finding that intelligence was inappropriately manipulated to make the best possible case for war scare the public into supporting a quest to kill a bunch of people on the other side of the globe.  Still, despite the fact that this is surely [...]