Unqualified Offerings

If you ever bought the cockamamie idea that the US could and should invade Iraq and turn it into a “beacon for the Muslim world to follow,” one more reminder that what the Muslim world sees now is Iraqis trying like hell to get to Syria, because life is better there. Syria. Stop to think [...]

Chris Floyd, with footnotes by Silber and IOZ. As some of us have been saying for awhile now, it’s not what the government has done, but what it maintains it could do, and on whose say-so. In that sense, I think Floyd is right: we live in “post-mortem America.” I doubt it will ever get [...]

By Mona
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I can’t improve on Greenwald, so I just quote him:

With perfect timing to match the new White House campaign [for war on Iran], Ledeen has just released a new book titled “The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction.” National Review’s Andrew McCarthy oozed praise for the book and [...]

Megan McArdle offers your primer on why the gold standard sucks worse than fiat currency. Tyler Cowen piles on. I mention this only because: 1) you still run into libertarians – and some conservatives – who want to so-called “sound money,” and 2) one of them is Ron Paul. (Other schools of libertarianism are fine [...]