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John Markley's blog on current politics and political philosophy, from a libertarian perspective. Has commentary on economics, war and peace, the nanny state, law enforcement, and the nature of statism.
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Is actually learning some basic facts about a politician before you start worshipping him too much to ask?
So, President Obama has announced the deployment of more troops to Afghanistan. To their credit, more liberals have attacked this decision than I expected. In many such cases, however, my respect is somewhat tempered by the fact that many of them a...
Reality outstupids parody once again
I was up very late last night, as is my habit (one of the nice things about a job done mostly from home is that if I want to sit at my computer playing Victoria: Revolutions at 3:30 AM, that's my prerogative), and I saw the news that Barack Obama had...
Caring about the war is so 2008
The end of August marked the close of what is now the bloodiest month for the United States forces in Afghanistan since its presence began there in 2001, with 45 confirmed deaths. I haven’t seen any numbers for Afghan deaths, but given the escalat...
Claiming ownership
Barbarism
Today is the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, where the United States government immolated tens of thousands of innocent people and sentenced tens of thousands more to slower but no less awful deaths by radiation sickness and ca...
Failure is an orphan. So are hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.
Kevin Carson has a post on remarks made by Matthew Yglesias, in which Yglesias said:My ideas really are basically the ideas that were at the core of the bipartisan, establishment consensus throughout the Cold War years. And they're ideas that could a...
Please to explain...
I was reading about the case of Amelia S., a 17-year old girl from Indiana with clinical depression who fled National Guard boot camp without authorization and returned home. The Guard tried to force her back to training, in defiance of rules regard...
Fred Reed column
No sooner have I put up a new article on the war, than someone comes along to casually blow me out of the water. I ran into Fred Reed’s newest column while perusing Strike the Root today. A lot of the writing Reed (who fought in Vietnam as a Mari...
New article at antiwar.com
I’m happy to say that my first article at Antiwar.com is now up. I’ve been reading the site since its inception, so this is quite satisfying for me. Hope you like it. (I just looked it up and realized antiwar.com has been around for 12 years. ...
The mother of invention
Faced with an unending flood of nonsense and partisan hackery from Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb, Julian Sanchez has contrived an ingenious labor-saving device: Goldfarb’s hackiest post of the day will be henceforth recognized with a lin...
In which I succumb to the inevitable and write about Ron Paul
I haven’t talked about the Ron Paul candidacy here before, because it wasn’t something I had an especially strong opinion about either way; I feel neither the intense enthusiasm for him of the Mises Institute/ lewrockwell.com paleolibertarians no...
