Freedom of enterprise, anyway, especially when your enterprise is heroin. Seen from the air, the Margo desert, which sprawls across the far southwestern corner of Afghanistan toward the borders with Iran and Pakistan, is traced with white car tracks. With its forbidding reputation as the “desert of...
This is, er, a problem: 200,000 INSURGENTS?: According to Iyad Allawi's intelligence chief, General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, the Sunni insurgency consists of 200,000 fighters, of which 40,000 are a hard core..
As always, Orcinus renders the issues surrounding the Washington election crystal clear.
Very nice portrait of Sam Reed, our Secretary of State and one of a small and declining number of sensible, moderate Republicans in Washington State in today's Seattle Times. Note that Dino Rossi doesn't make the cut; having the same opinions as John Carlson but being less...
Fascinating article on the BBC. Franco was neither an idiot nor an ideologue. He had two interests in World War II; staying alive and getting Gibraltar. Openly siding with the.
1) Hire a real economist. There are real right-wing economists out there--several of them. I'm sure a few of them would be willing to write now and again for such an.
He couldn't make the time himself, so he sends a lame duck and his even lamer brother? WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, seeking to raise the American profile in the international relief effort in Asia, will tour devastated parts of the region...
Redbeard on this editorial from David Holcberg, research associate at the Ayn Rand Institute. I was looking for something to buy in a book catalog and asked my dad about The.
Best wishes to all from Lawyers, Guns and Money. Have fun, stay safe. Special shout-out to those stuck in places they'd rather not be. May 2005 be a better year.
Because of the absurd manner in which studios release films at the end of the year, any "Best of" list collected in late December threatens to exclude several of the best films of the year. I haven't seen Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda, The Assasination of...
Make sure to take Roger Ailes's year in review quiz. And hope that we'll get Jesse Taylor's 20 most annoying conservatives soon...
When recently discussing the best-reviewed movies of the year, I (perhaps willfully) left one obvious candidate out. Well, among the best critics of the vaguely alternative press, I'm afraid Before Sunset is the.