Behold the mind-boggling irrationality of those directing American foreign policy. Today on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked a guest, “As you leave office, how much of a disappointment is it to you that Iran still [has] an active nuclear weapons program?” The guest replied, Well, I think it’s an ongoing problem for the […]
The scandal over the lewd photo of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – New York) sent from the Congressman’s Twitter account has received much press the last few days. But no one seems to have identified what should be the most scandalous part of the scandal: this statement by Weiner. I think that what people […]
Peace is not the answer. War is the answer. President George W. Bush never asked for or followed my advice, but I sent him this letter on April 6, 2002: Dear Mr. President: I urge you to make a radical change to your policy regarding the conflict of Israel against the dictatorial and murderous regimes […]
… because we are still acting like police and social workers while our enemies are fighting a war, and because our political leaders still do not recognize the enemy: Islamists, especially Islamic governments. The evil monster Osama Bin Laden has been killed (shot in the head) by American military heroes. Good. But centuries from now, […]
(A slightly revised version of this post appears in Capitalism Magazine, April 17, 2011) I do not recommend the movie based—unfaithfully and ineptly, in my judgment—on Atlas Shrugged (Rand 1957) that opens today. (See my analysis of one scene here.) Instead, I urge every thoughtful individual to read the novel, again and again, and to […]
For the past two weeks, since the political protests in Eqypt began, Americans have been arguing about how to handle Egypt. The way to handle Egypt is to handle Iran. During the rioting in Iran in June 2009, I wrote the post Now is the Time to Strike Iran. Of course, any time is a […]
Immediately after the monstrously evil, murderous rampage in Tucson last Saturday, leading voices on the political Left in media and government blamed the political Right. In particular, they blamed the TEA Party, along with commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, for its lack of civility, for its hate-filled, “vitriolic rhetoric” that allegedly leads […]
On Sunday, June 27, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman—I state his credentials at the risk of being accused of ad hominem—wrote this in his piece, The Third Depression: … over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy. … officials seem to be […]
Private Property is the Solution For this blog entry, let me leave aside the following facts, which are oil and water under the bridge. BP’s off-shore oil leases, like all off-shore oil leases, are leases to use federal property. (Hat tip to this article in The Freeman.) The land and water are owned by the […]
In his remarks on Wall Street Reform last Thursday, April 22, at Cooper Union in New York City, President Obama said this: I’m going to quote: “Through the great banking houses of Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed… would rivet upon […]