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.)