…never dies. It’s unfortunately a basic feature of human nature that requires logic to overcome, and it’s a battle for every generation.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Why The Libyan Intervention Was Such A Disaster
Because it’s likely to prevent an intervention where it really matters:
If we are going to bomb Syria, it will have to be the way we bombed Serbia, or worst case the way we invaded Iraq: with cheaper, lower grade holy water sprinkled by the less sacrosanct NATO priests on the bombs as in Serbia, or with just some Potomac water hastily and unconvincingly sprinkled by Pentagon chaplains on the bombs as in Iraq.
But for the foreseeable future, as long as he is reasonably discreet and possibly even if he isn’t, President Assad can murder as many of his subjects as he wants with no fear that the UN will do anything about it. We stopped a relatively small scale massacre in a country that posed little threat to our interests (and from which we were getting some excellent intelligence cooperation I am told) at the cost of enabling what looks ultimately like a much larger bloodbath in a country where our vital interests are much more engaged, and whose government actively supports some of our most dangerous enemies in the region.
As Glenn often says, a replay of the Carter administration is a best-case scenario.
In Praise Of Entrepreneurs
Over at Pajamas Media, I have some thoughts this morning on Steve Jobs and people who really change the world.
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The business of Apple was business, not politics.
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Did Jobs die from quackery?
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Here’s the WSJ obit.
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More thoughts from Lileks.
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Michael Malone remembers Steve Jobs.
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How his philosophy changed technology.
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The Onion says we’re doomed.
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Rob Long: The right kind of tyrant.
A Space Policy That Sucks Less
That’s the working title of a piece I’m working on for Reason magazine. It will be part of an issue dedicated to space.
The Wall Street Protesters’ Demands
A response.
This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I said that Democrats and the left are anti-economics.
Well, She Wasn’t Being “Reasonable”
Is CBS news silencing its own reporter over her “Fast’n’Furious” coverage?
Tea Party In Space
They’re having a telecon this evening. Check in if you want to find out what they’ve been up to.
Tyranny
A Wisconsin judge rules that dairy farmers have no right to drink milk from their own cows.
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The judge is defended here, but I agree with commenters that the real problem is the reach of government.
Victory Over Iran And Syria
Is it at hand?
Probably not, until we get a new president, who doesn’t “lead from behind.”
A Letter To The Marching Morons
From David Freddoso:
Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don’t get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.
You know what they don’t worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.
So when your organizers go on television and say things like, “It’s revolution, not reform!” and they’re not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.
Read all.
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The pathology of capitalism, new and improved with trutherism.