Category Archives: politics

silly

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

Bedtime approaches and wacky ideas start to creep in through the cracks. Here’s one: Nobel Truce Prize.

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White Man’s Burden

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

Alex Knapp puts the case for permanent war: There is an old Anglo-American common law principle that imposes a duty on people to defend third parties so long as such defense doesn’t put their life at risk. The same principle … Continue reading →

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so long Andy

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

Andy Kashdan‘s last bon mot? In our next foreign adventure, it will be said that perhaps, theoretically, those kooky non-interventionists had a point, but now it’s too late, again. I have just one question: When will it be a convenient … Continue reading →

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“screeners now failing to catch anything”

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 08 by Anton

SatireWire In a troubling sign that investigators may be getting bored with their success smuggling guns and knives onto airplanes, the U.S. Department of Transportation today disclosed that its agents have recently cleared airport security checkpoints with an M1 tank, … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

Learned Hand, 1942 This much I think I do know – that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in … Continue reading →

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Francis Fukuyama, stasist twit

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

Francis Fukuyama doesn’t think much of libertarians. The hostility of libertarians to big government extended to U.S. involvement in the world. The Cato Institute propounded isolationism in the ’90s, on the ground that global leadership was too expensive. At the … Continue reading →

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hammer & sickle & stripes

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

Today I started to read Neil Smith’s Forge of the Elders, and had to chuckle at the names of the spaceships of the American Soviet Socialist Republic: Dole, McCain, Hatch (“three misunderstood and martyred socialist statesmen who had made America … Continue reading →

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