This propagandistic method of dropping any and all caveats from this or that claim is precisely how the New York Times led the media pack in deceiving the American people into the war in Iraq, a war based on lies and deceptions perpetrated on the American people precisely by this…
Presented by Tom Woods at the Mises Circle in Houston, 14 January 2012. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
Apparently, you are supposed to think you only have a choice this coming presidential election between a big-government, status-quo Democrat or a big-government, status-quo Republican and that no matter who you vote for, it will be for naught when it comes to tackling the deficit.…
What's funny about that is--as the editors of the NYT must surely be aware--that Ron Paul gets more support from members of the military than any other candidate.…
What’s most enlightening about the attacks on Dr. Paul and his views and positions is the fact that when you really get down to it, his sin is that he’s too unwilling to tow the official line on issues across the board, too willing to challenge the lies and war propaganda, and too honest with the American public about real issues.
So if you want a president willing to pander to Israel and do what Israeli leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu think is in Israel’s best interest–hardly synonymous with what’s in America’s best interest–then, yeah, don’t vote for Ron Paul.
This is the kind of asinine logic (or illogic, rather) that the media is insulting their audience’s intelligence with. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the mainstream media actually reported on the candidate’s actual views and positions on real issues?…
Ah, Thomas Friedman. You gotta love him. Here he is on December 20, 2011: With the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq, we’re finally going to get the answer to the core question about that country: Was Iraq the way Iraq was because Saddam was the way Saddam…
David Frum, the Bush speechwriter who wrote Dubya’s “Axis of Evil” line, doesn’t like Ron Paul for president, and doesn’t think you should, either. He makes a pretty convincing case. Let’s look. Paul is “a boutique candidate, appealing to a very particular fringe within the GOP.” Yes, we wouldn’t want…
At the recent International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 in Toronto, Canada (the Toronto Hearings), David Chandler gave a superb talk on the science behind the collapse of World Trade Center 7. I was honored that in his presentation, he cited my paper, “Video Analysis of NIST’s…
“Dammit, make a decision.” A Times editorial: President Obama is fulfilling his promise to wind down the Iraq war. When he took office, there were about 142,000 American troops on the ground; now there are 46,000. All are supposed to be gone by Dec. 31 under a 2008 agreement between…
I previously observed how Paul Krugman recently argued that the U.S. government must not cut spending and balance the budget because running up endless debt that can never be repaid is good for the economy. You can go read what he said for yourselves, but that’s it in a nutshell.…
“I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush.” — Senator Barack Obama, May 2008 Omissions of Grandeur The New York Times reports on a U.N. report that criticizes Israel for killing several protestors who attempted to cross the border fence from Lebanon in May. The…
Steven Aftergood observes: According to President Obama, he has no higher duty than to protect the American people. But that’s not what the Constitution says. “As President, I have often said that I have no greater responsibility than protecting the American people,” wrote President Obama in the new “National Strategy…
A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Congress shall have the power “To regulate Commerce … among the several States”) means the federal government can coerce you under threat of punishment into purchasing services from private companies. Among other Orwellian arguments, the…
It's highly disappointing to me to see to the lengths Kim Petersen was willing to go to in his attempt to falsely characterize me as intellectually dishonest.…
Once again, I find myself mostly in agreement with Marc Lynch, who argues against launching a military attack on Iran at Foreign Policy. I agree pretty much with all of his conclusions. But that’s not what I’m inspired to comment on at the moment. Rather, I’d like to make an…
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress has appropriated more than a trillion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world.…
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has interviewed me frequently. Here’s the article from the most recent one, in Persian (it’s not on their English site, unfortunately). Here’s a very rough Google translation. Unfortunately, my comments do not come across very clearly, and they published my conclusions without including any…
It is a simple and uncontroversial point of fact under international law that Israel has no legal claim to Jerusalem, that Jerusalem is rather undisputed Palestinian territory, and that Israel's occupation of the city is illegal.…
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