Unqualified Offerings

Hey, did you know that Ron Paul published a bunch of newsletters with – oh. You did. So, like many I’ve wondered, since within movement libertarianism ”everybody knows” that Lew Rockwell ghost-wrote much of the content and solicited the rest from fellow travelers, why Paul and Rockwell have avoided formally acknowledging Rockwell’s authorship.
Assuming Rockwell really was [...]

By Thoreau
I’ve seen some discussion of the declining number of Palestinian Christians around the internet the past day or so, and this occurred to me:  The Israeli government’s principal base of support in the US is Christians who believe that a property deed issued to Moses atop Mt. Sinai 3000 years ago gives the Israelis [...]

America cleans itself
America washes up
America thinks that on the shelf
There just might be a cup
America takes that cup
And pours itself a shot
America’s drunk by half past twelve
America thinks it’s hot
America weeps a bit
America lashes out
America thinks that it’s the shit
And there can be no doubt
America bombs your town
It does this out of love
And as you [...]

By Thoreau
Ladies and gentlemen, I submit the following:
1) The TSA recently foiled a plot to use cupcakes as delivery systems for smuggling gels onto airplanes.
2) In the next few days, a native of Turkey is planning to invade US airspace, in celebration of the birth of a radical West Bank preacher (and Muslim holy man) [...]

By Thoreau
There is no row 13 on my flight.

By Thoreau
Republicans want concessions in return for an extension of the payroll tax cut.  This confuses me.  Generally, if you are in favor of something, you don’t demand something in return for it.  You offer something to get it.  And, IIRC, the Grover Norquist Blood Oath obligates them to support any and all tax cuts.  [...]

By Thoreau
A recurring theme on this blog is that the Onion’s news analysis outperforms the rest of the media combined.  Given the hand-wringing over the death of what was apparently the finest pundit in the entire history of the multiverse, I think the Onion should take advantage of this moment of weakness to seize power.  [...]

The most interesting thing to me about the long denouement of the life of Christopher Hitchens has to do with how he never became a full-bore neocon. Hitchens hated himself some “Islamofascism,” but he never stopped, at least that I saw, writing sympathetically about the Palestinians, and critically about Israeli policy. That’s a very un-neocon [...]

By Thoreau
Although the Robin Hood story comes in many versions, at least one version takes place shortly before the reign of King John, the same King who was forced to accept that Supreme Executive Power comes with limits.  (The requirement of a mandate from the masses came later.)  I choose to believe that the 99%ers [...]

By Thoreau
Greenwald reminds us that those who rationalize the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. When Leon Panetta says that the cost of the Iraq War was “worth it”, he’s saying that a six digit civilian body count is acceptable to the United States.  And yet we dare to tell ourselves that [...]