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  • Sep 1, 2004

    Honor Among Thieves

    by Liberty and Power

    No wonder Richard Perle digs convicted embezzler Ahmed Chalabi so – they're two perps in a pod:
      Press tycoon Conrad M. Black and other top Hollinger International Inc. officials pocketed more than $400 million in company money over seven years and Black's handpicked board of directors passively approved many of the transactions, a company investigation
  • Sep 1, 2004

    Giving Props

    by Liberty and Power

    After expropriating a big chunk of his work for an earlier post, it's only right that I direct your attention to Kevin Michael Grace's fundraiser. For a most unorthodox reading of pop culture and politics, be sure to check out his Punk Rock Revisionism I and II.
  • Aug 31, 2004

    Of "Catastrophic Success," Bush "the Deserter," and Much More

    by Liberty and Power

    I hope you're reading Juan Cole regularly. Unlike many of those in the Bush administration who can offer only the pose without substance (and many administration defenders in the press, and on blogs), Cole is an actual Middle East expert, with extraordinary knowledge of the region, its various cultures, and its history. Even if you disagree with all of Cole's personal political beliefs (which I think it is safe to say are well left of center), his writ

  • Aug 31, 2004

    Ron Paul, R.I.P.

    by Liberty and Power

    No, Ron Paul hasn't died. But the news continues to piss me off today. I had been prepared to acknowledge that when he's good, Ron Paul can be very good. In fairness, this articleis good.

    However. A friend draws my attention to Paul's article praising the Texas GOP platform, which Paul says"is serious about reducing the size and scope of government." And he s

  • Aug 31, 2004

    End Soviet Chic

    by Liberty and Power

    In his latest post, Radley Balko asks if he was being boorish by helping to point out the true meaning of the hammer and sickle emblem to a student wearing it at a seminar. Not only do I think that he acted correctly but I believe he fulfilled an obligation, which all of us who hold the classical liberal position have, to educate. When Professor Bobb brought up the 100 million dead associated with communism he may have been jeered but he also cr
  • Aug 30, 2004

    Sci-fi thread still going strong

    by Liberty and Power

    It's getting lost at the bottom of the page, but people are still going at it in the comments threads, so I thought I'd re-link to it here.
    (I just added $0.02 about anti-semitism.)
  • Aug 30, 2004

    Soviet Chic

    by Liberty and Power

    This weekend, I spoke on panel to a group of kids in the Arsalyn program, which is a kind of honors seminar aimed at getting 16-22 year olds more involved in politics.

    Reason's Nick Gillespie and I held the libertarian banner, NRO's Jonah Goldberg and two others spoke for the conservatives, and The New Republic's, Peter Beinhart took issue for the left, along with one other woman who works in the Georgia Statehosue whose name escapes me, a

  • Aug 29, 2004

    Questions You Never Thought to Ask

    by Liberty and Power

    I think this is a game that would be a lot of fun to play:

    Having failed to find banned weapons in Iraq, the CIA is preparing a final report on its search that will speculate on what the deposed regime's capabilities might have looked like years from now if left unchecked, according to congressional and intelligence officials.

    The CIA plans for the repo

  • Aug 28, 2004

    Keyes Flip Flops: Just Another Politician After All

    by Liberty and Power

    As politicians go, I alway had a soft spot for Alan Keyes. Over the years, I have been inclined to be forgiving on his weirder qualities and wrong-headed positions on certain issues.

    I wanted to believe that here was finally a man who was serious about ideas. His flip flops on whether it was ethical for out-staters to run for the Senate (after denouncing Hillary for this sin) bothered me a bit as did his endorsement of reparations.....but I was still inclined to regard it as a matter o