We are told constantly this weekend about the greatness of Colin Powell. Last we heard from this lifelong government parasite, he was lying to the UN about the urgent need to murder Iraqis. All Bush regime war propaganda is stupid, but his was moronic. Remember the RVs of death, that were allegedly producing sophisticated biological weapons while driving around? Or the model plane that would fly from Baghdad to Manhattan to bomb Central Park or something? For more, see Justin Raimondo on the man who bragged about personally burning down poor people’s houses in Vietnam, because their villages were insufficiently … Continue reading Are We To Be Spared Nothing?

Decades ago, libertarians had to put up with the smears of conservative Ernest van den Haag in National Review. Now The American Conservative has given us a dumbed down version in FrontPageMag.com’s Robert Locke and his Marxism of the Right. In response, in the same issue–unlike with NR–comes In Defense of Freedom by TAC’s libertarian associate editor (and LRC columnist) Daniel McCarthy. If you want to comment,

Thanks to Butler Shaffer for the photo.

Drudge is reporting that Bush is going to ask for a large increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts. Remember when the GOP promised us that the NEA’s days where numbered after the “revolution” of 1994?

Writes Ralph Raico: “Wonderful. A Pentagon filled with ‘Christian’ lunatics.”

Larry Schweikart (whom some describe as a libertarian, others as a conservative) on Hiroshima: “In my book, during a war, if saving a single one of my soldiers can be achieved by any means, I’ll take it.” Then we have this master of the English language, telling opponents of the bombing, “You Johnny Come lately egomaniacs need to be hung for treason.” Just the kind of people from whom the insane regime now in D.C. draws its strength. Accept all propaganda, ask no fundamental questions, and threaten to hang for “treason” anyone whose judgment differs from yours. When they’ve been … Continue reading Are We to Be Spared Nothing?