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Archive for February 15th, 2008

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Give Till It Hurts – Fewer People

A little bird reminds me that I haven’t mentioned antiwar.com’s quarterly pledge drive. The site has been a mainstay of mine for close to a decade now. It’s a top-notch foreign-policy news aggregator, and a mother-lode of anti-interventionist opinion from the left, the right and off the grid.
A few of you are muttering now that, [...]

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The Jawa Report: The Pustule “Bluto” Leaks Sebaceous Matter

By Mona
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Glenn Greenwald needs no one to defend him or his allegiance to the Constitution, or to core American values. But this disgusting assault on him by one “Bluto” at The Jawa Report merits a righteous smackdown because: (1) Greenwald is a proxy for many of us who agree with him on [...]

Friday, February 15th, 2008

That Government Which Governs Worst . . .

Between subsidized biofuels and the prohibition on intravenous-line checklists, it certainly appears that the libertarian/anarchist critique of the managerial state has a little life left in it. (Checklist link via Drum.) Just about everyone not seeking campaign donations and votes in the American midwest agrees that ethanol mandates et al are the worst “solution” to [...]