Secret Trials, Secret Laws
Spencer Ackerman reports on a secret USA-PATRIOT Act: You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know. Congress...
Spencer Ackerman reports on a secret USA-PATRIOT Act: You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know. Congress...
Before we begin, here are some links that will help you follow along as God calls his children home. Or as Harold Camping endures the worst disappointment of his life. Or, conceivably, both. Links...
When do we call a slave a slave? The question came up recently when Rand and Ron Paul described a right to health care as leading, ultimately, to slavery: Wrote Matt Yglesias: [W]hen I...
The Lost Patrol, sounding like a faint echo of themselves (I still prefer Off Like a Prom Dress):
The mists of the Absolute were in turmoil. Lightning rent the infinite void. Shiva the Destroyer — always the flightiest of the trimurti — was divinely pissed off. “Those wretched heathens! I can’t believe...
Tyler Cowen asks: What’s the best accessible pop album that never caught on with listeners and buyers? Of course that’s a funny question. If it never caught on, what makes it so accessible? What...
Emptywheel writes: [Some suggest] that the fact Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libi provided tidbits (or, according to several reports, unconvincing denials) that led to OBL equates to us needing torture to get...
U.S. officials said they would ensure bin Laden’s body would be handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition.
Open thread. Have at it. News and updates will no doubt continue until long after I’ve fallen asleep, despite the adrenalin. My first thoughts: Let the return to normalcy begin. When does this war...
Be patient. It grows. And grows. And GROWS: Also, it’s one of my favorite tracks for distance running. I could literally put it on infinite repeat and run until my lungs collapsed. That’d...
One of those long, theory-driven posts that you’re probably not going to read anyway.
Standard caveats about authenticity, but the guy sounds legit to me anyway. Mike writes: I live in the city of Benton Harbor, so I’m right in the middle of this situation. A lot of...
A series of questions and answers, citing sources and showing my work. I may update this post as needed. Bonus to visitors from Balloon Juice: Seeing someone from the Cato Institute admit he’s wrong....
John Cole asks what libertarians have to say about Benton Harbor, Michigan (Hint… he’s not “really curious.” He just says he is): I’m really curious what the libertarian response is to the Governor of...
This time it’s for the Internet. I’m skeptical, for many of the same reasons I was skeptical of the BNote. Timothy B. Lee explains. I agree with him. Reluctantly, if you can believe it.
Here’s a budget idea. No, it’s not perfectly aligned with my theoretical commitments. Is anything out there so aligned with yours? (Didn’t think so!) My claims here are only (a) it would work (b)...
Leitmotif: Any custom is better than no custom.—Nietzsche Goodreads: Yesterday an acquaintance asked me to link to him on Goodreads. Yikes! I hadn’t updated my Goodreads profile in almost two years. It would appear...
On May 13, 1943, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The Allies suddenly found themselves saddled with nearly three hundred thousand prisoners of war, including the bulk of General Erwin Rommel’s famed Afrika Korps....
A conservative talking point you’re bound to hear, if you haven’t already: “Why should my taxes pay for baby killers?” The shallow liberal response: “Planned Parenthood already can’t spend federal money on abortion.” The...