My friend Justin Raimondo is right: The hysteria being generated in certain quarters around the botched bombings in London is entirely manufactured, designed to support a failed and immoral war.  Like the JFK airport plotters, and the Fort Dix Six, and a score of other victims of Sudden Jihad Syndrome), the bombers were incompetent and almost certainly not connected to Al … [Read More]

For all those career criminals out there, oppressed by a legal system stacked against them, who hope against hope that the justice of their cause will some day be recognized, the President’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence is a historic victory. Poor Scooter, who suffered discrimination at the hands of jurors just because he happens to belong to a minority group—a … [Read More]

A pipe bomb explodes in a trash can outside of Disney World in Florida, and it makes international headlines. The hysteria builds—and it’s easily translatable into war hysteria. Addendum: A Disney employee has been arrested “after bragging about putting a pipe bomb at Downtown Disney.”  [Read More]

”So incompetent as to be almost laughable”—That’s how former Scotland Yard investigator John O’Connor characterized the incredibly botched London bombings, in which 5 hapless “jihadists” were arrested (so far). Is this “Al Qaeda”? I think not. Yet to look at the amount of hysteria this incident has generated—at the offices of National Review alone—you’d think we’re on the brink of another … [Read More]

If you haven’t read Victor Gold’s Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy Rollers and the Neocons Destroyed the GOP, then you’re in for a treat. Irascible as Taki, and full of bile against the neocon pod-people who have taken over the party of Goldwater and Taft, here’s a clip from his interview with Bill Moyers: “The only two candidates … [Read More]

It’s out of control, all right. Not just the the hijacked governance of the world’s "lone surviving Superpower"—but the entire social and intellectual landscape of America. We are indeed in uncharted territory. On the one hand, we have to tolerate the intolerable, no-limits megalomania of Dick Cheney along with the amazing vacuity of his junior partner, G.W. Bush, as they lead … [Read More]

It is hard to understand why those who are not cognitively challenged write inexplicably stupid things. Although Professor Allan Wolfe and I would not agree on much politically or philosophically, from all accounts he is an intelligent man. In June 1999 he wrote a reasonably perceptive review of my book After Liberalism for The New Republic, the publication in which his … [Read More]