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Thursday, July 24, 2008
What Every American Should Know About Single-Payer H.R. 676
(3 comments) While well-intentioned people are pushing for single-payer health care in the U.S., it's important to view the plan from the perspective of patients' choice and providers' freedom. Here are some serious consequences that would result from enactment of H.R. 676, the "United States National Health Insurance Act"

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A Million Terrorists?
Earlier this month the federal government added the millionth name to its "Terrorism Watch List" - and it may have been yours. Comprising just 16 names on September 11, 2001, this modern blacklist now functions as a catchall and cover for federal intelligence agencies. Since no one wants to be accused of overlooking a terrorist, bureaucrats have added names over the last seven years, to the tune of 20,000 a month

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Should Oil Executives Be Strung Up?
The oil industry is everybody's favorite whipping boy, and indeed it is tempting to criticize them for their acceptance of past government largesse. However, the lion's share of criticism of the oil companies consists not of criticism of their violations of libertarian principles but of their status as exemplars of the alleged excesses of free market capitalism.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Spying uncovered
Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released documents show.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Notes on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout
Here's a general rule for you amateur political economists: whenever the government justifies a policy on the grounds that it must "stabilize" something (e.g., stabilize the Middle East, stabilize Iraq, stabilize Afghanistan, stabilize the commodity markets, stabilize the financial markets, stabilize the macro economy, etc.), immediately conclude that it is up to no good and hold on to your wallet.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Mission Not Accomplished
(3 comments) For years, supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have touted his social programs known as "missions" as a model of social justice. But this narrative is a myth, according to a comprehensive study by the Latin American Institute of Social Research. The authors, Yolanda D'Elia and Luis Francisco Cabezas, are not ideological adversaries of Chavez's government.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
'Have Nothing To Do With Conquest'
When we celebrated Independence Day eight days ago, no party leader had the moral courage to tell Americans the truth, which is that in the last 50 years both parties have eviscerated our independence in regard to the single most important foreign policy issue – that is, the decision on whether or not to go to war.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Shoot-Down of Iran Air Flight 655
The shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes marked the end of an eight-year-war between Iran and Iraq, a war that in all probability started with the help of the US government and was certainly prolonged by the US and Israel as part of the policy of dual containment of Iran and Iraq.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Near Insanity at the Federal Reserve
(1 comments) There is no shortage of explanations for our current difficulties. Some commentators say it's all due to hedge fund "speculators" or the OPEC cartel or the spendthrift congress or Big Oil. Actually, the root cause of the inflationary recession is far more straightforward and far closer to home. The fundamental culprit is the U. S. Federal Reserve System and the near insane monetary policy it has had since 2001.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Time for comrade Paulson to pull the plug on the Fannie and Freddie charade
Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac adequately capitalised, as asserted recently by US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and their regulator Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Director James B. Lockhart III? The answer is: obviously not, if these two government-sponsored enterprises of the US federal government had to make a living on normal private commercial terms.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Fannie, Freddie, Fascist
(8 comments) President Bush is considering a fateful step in a 60-year-old problem: the nationalization of these mortgage companies. He wants to guarantee the $5 trillion (that's trillion with a "t") in debt owned by these companies. Another option would be to put these monstrosities under "conservatorship," which means that you and I will pay for their losses directly.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
US military tries to influence Hollywood's take on war
US Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale used to be stationed in Iraq. Now he wages his battle from the confines of a Los Angeles office. His frontline? The studios and film sets of Hollywood. Breasseale is part of a Pentagon offensive to help shape Tinseltown's take on war and the armed forces, a stance often seen by the military as relentlessly negative, one-sided and ill-informed.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Blame Taxes for Baltimore's Rot
Baltimore deserves the Third-World profile it has developed because it has expanses of crumbling, crime-riddled neighborhoods populated by low-income renters, an absent middle class, and just a few enclaves of high-income gentry near the Inner Harbor or in suburbs. This wasn't what Baltimore looked like in the 1950s.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Where the Fight is Truly the Most Fierce
...people such as Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rove, Hayden, Mueller and the rest of the gang, in my opinion, have begun the most fierce fight - and it's not their convenient "War on Terror" - it's right here in America against Americans...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Should the Government Kill Its Own Citizens?
If the government is allowed to kill criminals, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed, then the precedent can always be expanded to kill law-abiding citizens for political reasons. Governments are especially prone to do this when they are fighting wars-reacting to paranoia that the enemy is everywhere.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Supreme Court Affirms Individual Right: What's Next?
(2 comments) Banning handguns not only fails to stop violent criminals from committing crimes, but also denies law-abiding adults a critical means of self-defense. Despite the false claims of anti-gun advocates that most murderers are not hardened criminals but rather others who use guns in moments of ungovernable anger, the proof is overwhelming that the vast majority of individuals who commit homicide are not first-time offenders.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The North Korea "Problem"?
All who think rationally and logically realize there is no actual state of national emergency regarding North Korea. I don't think very many Americans feel threatened by North Korea. After all, North Korean uranium enrichment activities, possession/development of nuclear weapons (crude nuclear devices), is relevant only to their region. But the continued imposition of sanctions hinders peaceful coexistence.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Don't Invade Zimbabwe
(2 comments) The situation in Zimbabwe provides an excellent example of how U.S. foreign policy should operate all over the world.

Friday, June 27, 2008
Cooperation: How a Free Market Benefits Everyone
(11 comments) The following attempts to explain the most important idea in the history of social analysis. I speak of the division of labor, also known as the law of comparative advantage or the law of comparative cost, and also known as the law of association. Call it what you will, it is probably the single greatest contribution that economics has made to human understanding.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate?
..Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasn't sure how he would have voted when the resolution authorizing Bush to use force to overthrow Saddam Hussein came before the Senate. Since being in the Senate, he has voted to continue the occupation. ..doesn't sound much like a peace candidate..

Monday, June 23, 2008
Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol
(4 comments) Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking to reduce the influence of special interests. But like any other politician, he has powerful constituencies that help shape his views. And when it comes to domestic ethanol, almost all of which is made from corn, he also has advisers and prominent supporters with close ties to the industry...

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Empire or Democracy: Are We Ready for the Fall?
Increasingly, parallels are being drawn between the Roman Empire and the current American Empire. Yet while some may look to Rome as an inspiration, others believe it casts a dark shadow over us and our supposedly imperial aspirations.

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
(5 comments) Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum' To put it another way sometimes market based science, including bioengineering, actually has the answers to our problems.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Operation Enduring Pipeline
After debunking the war-for-freedom idea, the article offers a piercing perspective on the energy wars going on in southern Asia.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The March to Folly on the Afghan Border
The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by US air strikes last week showed that the American-led war in Afghanistan is relentlessly spreading into Pakistan, one of America's oldest, most faithful allies.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Real War Facing Our Nation
While it might be tempting to blame George W. Bush for the last 7 years of darkness, tyranny, and oppression in America, such would be a big mistake. The notion that simply electing a new president, McCain or Obama, will resolve America's woes is hopelessly naïve. The problem is a systemic one, not one of electing "better" people to public office.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Manufacturing Difference Between McCain and Bush
(4 comments) In a front-page article headlined "Is McCain Like Bush? It Depends on the Issue," the New York Times (6/17/08) managed to locate "striking differences" between Sen. John McCain and George W. Bush on several issues-in spite of contradictory evidence reported in the very same article about the two politicians' overwhelming similarities on these very issues.

Monday, June 16, 2008
The Messenger Is the Message
Learned attitudes must be constantly reinforced, a function performed by the journalistic community. Those who were paying attention could see how this role played out in the propagandizing for the Iraq War as well as the treatment accorded presidential candidate Ron Paul. Here is a man whose ideas challenged the very foundations upon which the corporate-state owners had long maintained their destructive power over people.

Friday, June 13, 2008
The "Stable Bulwark of Our Liberties"
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday struck a blow for the separation of powers and dealt the Bush administration a big setback by ruling that suspects held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to contest their imprisonment under the doctrine of habeas corpus. Simply put, the Court held that the government may not keep anyone in custody indefinitely without having to justify its actions to a judge.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
From the Heartland to the Border
Your papers, please and other observations about the loss of liberty in the USA.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
War and Inflation
The US central bank, called the Federal Reserve, was created in 1913. No one promoted this institution with the slogan that it would make wars more likely and guarantee that nearly half a million Americans will die in battle in foreign lands, along with millions of foreign soldiers and civilians.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Is the Real Problem "Isolationism" or Bipartisan Aggression?
The problem with the Democratic Intelligence Panel's critique is not its criticism of administration lying, which is if anything understated. Partisanship arose when the report failed to mention that key Democrats, some of whom ran for president in the 2008 primaries, also made pre-war statements echoing the administration's line that Saddam's unconventional weapons were a threat to the United States.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Ominous Opposition to a Long-Term U.S. Military Presence in Iraq
At the behest of Iraqi Shi'i leader Moktada al-Sadr, his powerful faction staged a formidable protest this week against a likely U.S.-Iraqi agreement to establish a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq, which would replace the United Nation-authorized U.S. occupation that expires at the end of 2008. This demonstration, and subsequent protests planned for the duration of the summer, should worry both governments.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Coming Collapse of Oil Prices
Bold economic predictions are dangerous, and I've been wrong before, but here goes: Oil prices are about to tumble. There are several important reasons to believe that crude oil prices of roughly $130/barrel are simply not sustainable. The first is that world-wide economic growth, and hence the demand for crude oil, has slowed markedly due to the credit crunch and the bursting real estate bubble.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
China's All-Seeing Eye
(4 comments) Naomi Klein wrote this article. Here is the Rolling Stone Magazine's description: With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Bob Gates' Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon
Not only are our masters in DC fighting unnecessary wars, they're fighting them the wrong way. Our tax Dollars in action!

Monday, May 19, 2008
Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism
(6 comments) The state thrives on an economically ignorant public. This is the only way it can get away with blaming inflation or recession on consumers, or claiming that the government's fiscal problems are due to our paying too little in taxes. It is economic ignorance that permits the regulatory agencies to claim that they are protecting us as versus denying us choice.

Sunday, May 18, 2008
The Militarization of American Police
(5 comments) Police use deadly force at their discretion. Police agencies then investigate themselves. Few politicians are willing to discuss police procedures, and the courts and legislatures uphold the "right" of police agencies to hide information about misbehaving officers. America may not be a police state-that is, a political system characterized "by an arbitrary exercise of power by police"-but it's getting too close for comfort.

Friday, May 16, 2008
New Study Calls 'Embed' Program for U.S. Media in Iraq a 'Victory' -- for the Pentagon
(1 comments) "The embedded program proved to be a Pentagon victory because it kept reporters focused on the horrors facing the troops, not the horrors of the civilian war experience," wrote Lindner, who is completing his doctoral dissertation at Penn State University. "The end result: a communications victory for an administration that hoped to build support for the war by depicting it as a successful mission with limited cost."

Friday, May 16, 2008
The Cult of the Presidency
(1 comments) Who can we blame for the radical expansion of executive power? Look no further than you and me.

Monday, May 12, 2008
Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?
The Bush government is seeking regime change there. No wonder the military dictators don't trust them. This is a great article explaining the US' machinations exploiting the recent cyclone in Burma. Just ignore the economic ignorance of the last paragraph.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Christianity in Eclipse
(4 comments) The Christian's attitude toward the state, its leaders, its military, its wars, its imperialism, and its interventionism should be a no-brainer: contempt, disdain, disgust, revulsion, abhorrence, repugnance, loathing – take your pick. Yet, among Christians one continues to find some of the greatest apologists for the state, its leaders, its institutions, and its evil doings.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Crucifixion of Jeremiah Wright
I have spent my entire life cringing at the stupidity, cowardice, and self serving fraud of the intellectual establishment in this country. And now that we have 24 hour cable news, and now that talk radio has become BIG MEDIA (it used to be honest when there was no money in it) the intellectual level of political and social criticism in this republic aspires to Olympian heights of fatuity.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Government Schools and the Housing Mess
The Law of Unintended Consequences is a fascinating thing. You can never be entirely sure what the second-, third-, etc. -order effects of any action will be. This is especially so with government policy because centralized decision-making can do so much damage to so many people. That ought to humble the politicians and bureaucrats, but it never does.

Friday, May 2, 2008
One-Party System
I can predict the winner of the presidential election even now: the government. In a one-party system, that's how things work. One-party system? Yes. The American political scene makes much more sense if you think of the two parties as two divisions of the same party. Admittedly that is hard to do at first. All American politics is presented as a tooth-and-claw rivalry between Republicans and Democrats.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Healthcare Affordability
While not going far enough in a free market direction for this libertarian, the most of the proposed reforms in this article are excellent.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The CRA Scam and its Defenders
(5 comments) "Liberal" economists are overjoyed by the bursting of the housing bubble, for it provides them with what they believe is another "market failure" story. "Most analysts see the sub-prime crisis as a market failure," Robert Gordon gleefully declared in the April 7 online edition of The American Prospect magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner.

Monday, April 28, 2008
New Delhi's Food Failure
Inflation in India has shot up to 7.4%, and food prices are skyrocketing. To control prices, the government has banned the export of wheat, pulses and all rice, save the luxury basmati variety. But all those measures are at best beside the point and at worst counterproductive. The real solution is to reform the faulty policies that have led to stagnation in food-grain production for almost a decade.

Friday, April 25, 2008
The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots
"American rice invaded the country," recalled Charles Suffrard, a leading rice grower in Haiti in an interview with the Washington Post in 2000. By 1987 and 1988, there was so much rice coming into the country that many stopped working the land.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Queen of Pork
Nobody doles out taxpayer money like Hillary Clinton - or rakes in as much campaign cash from the companies she does favors for

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Hillary Hates Freedom
Maybe that's a bit strong. Let's just say, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton operates with reckless disregard for individual freedom and the limited government that protects and sustains it. In her latest salvo, she dismisses the great promises of the Declaration of Independence, the founding principles of the United States, as rhetorical flourishes, mere garnishes on the real stuff of life.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Will the CIA Kill or Oust Ecuador's President?
(4 comments) He recently fired his defense minister, army chief of intelligence, and commanders of the army, air force, and joint chiefs. Why might those firings cost Correa his job or even his life? Because the reason he fired them was that Ecuador's intelligence systems were "totally infiltrated and subjugated to the CIA."

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dangerously Counterproductive War on Terror
At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon-the first large suicide bombing to target Americans-the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration's "war on terror" since 9/11 made Americans safer?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Politically Contrived Gasoline Shortage
Regulatory obstruction of investments in refineries is probably a more significant threat to the affordability of gasoline than any approaching exhaustion of oil reserves. Reestablishment of refiners' property rights and adoption of strict liability as the major instrument for controlling carbon dioxide and refinery pollution might end what otherwise may become an ever-worsening, regulatory-induced "energy crisis."

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Fuels vs. Food
(4 comments) If you think that wars for oil are bad, just wait until we're fighting for food.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Has Capitalism Failed?
(17 comments) It is now commonplace and politically correct to blame what is referred to as the excesses of capitalism for the economic problems we face, and especially for the Wall Street fraud that dominates the business news. Politicians are having a field day with demagoguing the issue while, of course, failing to address the fraud and deceit found in the budgetary shenanigans of the federal government...

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
New Regulations Will Shape the Next Crisis
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put forth a number of "new" ideas for changes in the regulatory structures. Nothing I saw will help all that much in the current crisis. It's more like re-arranging the deck chairs as the ship is going down. It seems like most of it is being proposed to prevent another crisis like the one we are in from occurring in the future.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Strategic Assets
(7 comments) The war racket pays too well for our congresscriters to end it: "As Congress gets an update next week on the Iraq war, lawmakers are personally invested in companies reaping billions of dollars from defense contracts."

Thursday, April 3, 2008
General William Odom Tells Senate Rapid Withdrawal Is Only Solution
A must read devastating answer to those who say we must stay in Iraq: "Last year I rejected the claim that it was a new strategy. Rather, I said, it is a new tactic used to achieve the same old strategic aim, political stability. And I foresaw no serious prospects for success. I see no reason to change my judgment now. The surge is prolonging instability, not creating the conditions for unity as the president claims."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Embarrassed US Starts to Disown Basra Operation
As it became clear last week that the Operation Knights Assault in Basra was in serious trouble, the George W. Bush administration began to claim in off-the-record statements to journalists that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched the operation without consulting Washington. The effort to disclaim U.S. responsibility for the operation is an indication that it was viewed as a major embarrassment...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: More Doublespeak on the Situation in Iraq
Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration's Orwellian doublespeak on the Iraq War, President Bush recently gave an upbeat speech in Dayton, Ohio, extolling the progress in Iraq and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's military offensive in the southern oil port of Basra against "criminal" elements.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Goal Is Freedom: Bailout Hypocrisy
Thud. That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. In response to severe problems in the credit markets, thanks to years of government intervention, the Federal Reserve-the government's counterfeiter and chief culprit in the current crisis-has opened its discount window to the investment banks. Interest rate: 2.5 percent.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
British and US forces drawn into battle for Basra
The US is facing a new crisis in Iraq that may determine the outcome of the presidential election, as American military forces are drawn into supporting the Iraqi government's faltering attempt to crush the main Shia militia. A US warplane strafed a house in Basra killing eight civilians, including two women and a child, Iraqi police said yesterday.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
America's Anti-Militarist Tradition
The Right went apoplectic at the skepticism that greeted Gen. David Petraeus's recent testimony about the success of the military escalation in Iraq. It was as though a member of the military was incapable of engaging in spin to support his commander in chief's war policy. How could anyone even for a moment entertain the idea that a high-ranking officer in the U.S. military could say something untrue?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Truncating the Antecedents
(1 comments) ...whenever the U.S. government launches a new war abroad, we would be well advised to look into what happened in that part of the world previously, perhaps over the course of several decades. We may well discover that the locals have legitimate grievances against our government or some of its corporate cronies. Or we may simply discover that the situation is more complicated than it has been made out to be.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
No link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda: Pentagon study
(1 comments) A detailed Pentagon study confirms there was no direct link between late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the Al-Qaeda network, debunking a claim President George W. Bush's administration used to justify invading Iraq. Coming five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the study of 600,000 official Iraqi documents and thousands of hours of interrogations of former Saddam Hussein colleagues "found no smoking gun..."

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Spitzer and the Laws that Brought Him Down
(5 comments) Eliot Spitzer is a bully, but more important, a bully with a badge, a man who has no scruples, no conscience, and not a shred of human decency. Here is a man who openly threatened journalists, used his position as a prosecutor to destroy other people, and had the press covering his backside.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Free-Market Money:A Key to Peace
(3 comments) War finance has long been the overt and covert rationale for an expansion of government's role in the banking system. For classical liberals, exploring this historical relationship sheds light on the sources of both government control over money and the duplicity with which the state often heads to war.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Who's Listening In on You?
The original FISA legislation was passed to prevent abuse, not allow for more of it. One can only wonder if FISA curtailed any substantive abuse. It is doubtful. Examining the justifications for allowing even more sweeping power, one can't help but come to this conclusion: the Protect America Act is intended to reduce the ability of the original FISA legislation to preclude abuse.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
William F. Buckley, Jr., R.I.P.
(1 comments) Almost all accounts of Buckley portray him as a warm and generous friend, and guests on his Firing Line television program have praised the way he allowed them full scope to make a case that he opposed. Unfortunately, his tolerance had a very strict limit. Libertarian and conservative opponents of a militaristic and interventionist foreign policy had to be at all costs suppressed.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Fascism, Left and Right
(6 comments) Mr. Goldberg gets some rough treatment from a libertarian reviewer for his book "Liberal Fascism". To quote the opening sentence: "Jonah Goldberg has ruined what could have been a valuable book." The reviewer also points out Goldberg's hypocrisy: "Goldberg himself supports the Iraq war; when one is faced with a "good" war, apparently, the link between war and fascism no longer need be of concern."

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Is the Starving Man Free?
(20 comments) Modern "liberals" who advocate the view that government should provide us with the necessities or alleged necessities of life rarely appreciate that this assistance rests on a system of mass robbery and enslavement that is highly inimical to their professed belief in liberty. In fact, the advocates of such policies present them in quite the opposite light, as enhancing our liberty.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East and What It Means for Americans
(1 comments) Twelve steps to recovering from empireholism. This is one of the most in depth, concise, and thoughtful views of our foreign policy I've read recently.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Frightful Face of Stimulus
Among businesspeople, bankers, and investors, there is a growing fear that the economy is headed towards recession or already in one. But that alone is not the source of worry. After all, an economy if left alone to function in freedom can recover. The real problem has to do with the political response.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Torture and Kangaroo Justice Are Un-American
(1 comments) Justice Scalia's remarks about torture reflect a fundamental problem with conservative judges. While oftentimes sound on economic liberty, they are absolutely atrocious with respect to civil liberties. Scalia's approval of torture in certain circumstances ignores an important point that every first-year law student learns in his constitutional law course: that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
John McCain and the Forever War
A very tough assessment of McCain. The fact that the author is ex-military makes the article even more devastating. The author covers it all from McCain's lies to his flip-flopping to his vindictiveness. If this guy gets elected we may as well call his administration Bush III.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Rise of the Imperial Class
While the title sums it all up, this is one of the best overviews of the situation I've read recently.