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Political Tourists

A couple of weeks back I wrote about my bemusement at being characterized as a “lefty blogger” by William Sjostrom. One of his commenters wrote My reading elsewhere of Henley and ‘Hesiod’ (previous...

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The Pure Thing

The signal feature of antisemitism as a bigotry is how eerily it mixes admiration with loathing. People who hate blacks or the Irish don’t also profess wonderment at Black and Irish achievement....

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Mail Call: Sympathy for the Devil

Reader Chris Borthwick writes I know it’s now taken as a given that Stalin paused at the Vistula only to let the Germans wipe out the Polish resistance, but there is a purely military case that could...

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EventualPundit

By the time I get around to writing about the Gregg Easterbrook situation people will have forgotten that it ever happened, but I’m tired now, and I’ve got gaming prep to do. Will I get to it before...

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In a Shocking Lapse of Narcissism

I forgot to wish myself a Happy Blogiversary last night while writing about other stuff. Unqualified Offerings is now two years old. I am pleased to see that in a mere two years, our leaders have begun...

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MT Guru Wanted

I’m implementing a very simple category system for UO in Movable Type. Still to do is, ideally, assign 2500+ messages to the “Main” category. I really, really, really do not want to do this one at a...

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Standing Offers

Tweaked by Belle’s essay, I’m reminded that I made generous offers to both the Dems and Republicans well before the election. Dems: let the Dems put as much real energy into getting rid of big...

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So Much for That

No libertarian growth strategies have proven effective, but I think the election may prove the definitive repudiation of the strategy of so-called “paleo-libertarianism.” Paleolibs like Lew Rockwell...

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Whack-a-Mole

The Australian quotes a US Marine surgeon warning that the casualty toll from the incipient Fallujah Assault (codenamed Operation: Here We Go Again) “would reach levels not seen since the Vietnam War.”...

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Department of Strategic Point-Not-Getting

Radley Balko observes that the political party controlling all branches of our government can now realize its burning desires to limit same. You’ll believe a man can write an entire column with a...

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I’m Too Sexy for my Foreign Policy

Sometimes you’ve just got to let the throbbing cock of benevolent hegemony slip free of the crotch-binding pants of sanity: The important thing now, of course, is not simply to acknowledge past...

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Fallujah Once, Shame on YOU

To the surprise of people who don’t read this weblog U.S. and Iraqi forces established control over more than 70 percent of Fallujah on Wednesday, U.S. commanders said, and troops described...

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Hand-Stitched Trackback

Flit, Matthew Yglesias, Alan Sullivan and Matt Welch have at this site, at least in passing.

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Like Making Candles Out of Ear Wax?

I don’t know if trying to find a home for libertarians in the Democratic Party is really like those radio commercials for home insulation where the tale of some amusing eccentric precedes the tagline...

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On Second Thought

Gas prices being what they are, Mrs. Offering and I have looked longingly at higher-priced gas-electric hybrids. The Auto journalist Bob Elton suggests they may not be All That after all. Just one...

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The Blogosphere Wishes to Welcome Professor Gary Becker

to the year 2002. How did we ever hash all this stuff out without you? Meanwhile, Becker’s co-blogger Richard Posner approaches the issue mathematically. As I understand it, if I think there’s a 1 in a...

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Dept. of Labor-Saving Devices

Mrs. Offering sent me a link to the “Dude” study as possible blog fodder, but Gene Healy already took care of it. His conclusion: Do you realize what a fabulously wealthy society we are? Rock on,...

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Andrew has more on

Andrew has more on the when to go to war question. Excerpt: Before I get started, let me start some ground rules: I am trying to establish ground rules for when it is appropriate to go to war, not to...

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Ding Dong, Witch Dead, the Continuing Series

Doug Feith has made a “personal and family reasons” decision. Alas, he is unlikely to live out the rest of his days in bitter obscurity or rueful reclusiveness. He’ll slide back into a foundation...

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The Thuggish Associated Press

By Mona Previously I’ve written that the AP behaves like goons with bloggers and their commenters– construing even a three-word quote of one of their articles as “copyright infringement.” (And a few...

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