War is Peace


•••.War is Peace ••• 2002
12/30/02 Who finances the fanatics? Mort Zuckerman USNews The Wahhabi lobby reminds one of the old Kremlin-style propaganda in its paranoid delusions, but it is far more pernicious, an unending stream of the most vicious anti-American, antisemitic bigotry. [more...] .
12/25/02 Gore right not to run Charley Reese Voting ought to be a privilege, not a right, and to exercise that privilege, people should be required to demonstrate some form of intellectual life other than just breathing. [more...] .
12/25/02 Happy Kwanzaa Paul Mulshine [frontpagemag.com] On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of seven people. [more...] .
12/24/02 Kwanzaa Ann Coulter Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and United Slaves -- the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa. [more...] .
April 1997 Charles Krauthammer Jerusalem Post He's been paralyzed by a spinal-cord injury since a 1972 diving accident. It's a topic he'd rather not highlight. "It's very expensive to be able to have just an ordinary life. My wheelchair is almost the price of a car, my car is practically the price of a modest house, my house - you can imagine the geometric progression here." Of all the columns he's penned, there's been nothing on living 25 years in this condition, nothing on the rights of the handicapped. "I'd like to say something profound about it and that hasn't quite occurred to me yet," Krauthammer says . "It's just very bad luck I had. I don't see anything more metaphysical than that involved. Everyone has their bad luck. Mine took this form." Krauthammer has been prevented, by his disability, from visiting Israel. [more...] .
12/13/02 U.S. Blocks Inspections Charley Reese Every act of terror proceeds from a political cause. Every act of war proceeds from a political cause. In my lifetime, the United States has done damned little to pursue peace, except on all-too-frequent occasions resorting to war. You will notice that President Bush, in the finest tradition of Orwellian newspeak, always prefaces talk of war with the phrase "In the name of peace ..." .
12/09/02 Permanent war state Charley Reese Scaring the home folks with "enemies at the gates" is the oldest ploy in human history for justifying an all-powerful government. Give us your money and your liberty, and we will protect you from the barbarians. Of course, the supply of barbarians proves to be infinite, for as soon as one enemy is defeated or collapses, another is manufactured. [more...] .
12/03/02 Lie, damned lies and terror warnings John Pilger The present Iraqi regime is a product of the Ba'athist Party, which the CIA helped bring to power. The CIA officer in charge of the operation described it as "my favourite coup". During the 1980s, America and Britain supplied Saddam Hussein with every weapon he wanted, often secretly and illegally. The relationship was known cynically in Washington as "the love affair". [more...] .
11/28/02 Thanksgiving For Big Brother Too? Sam Francis But then again, the leviathan may not really need new laws, vast bureaucracies, and secret programs driven by technologies out of science fiction to throttle what remains of American freedom. Already, inebriated with the air of the Zeitgeist, prosecutors are starting to crack down -- not on "terrorism," necessarily, but on the dissent and eccentric ideas that are really what worries the architects of the New World Order. [more...] .
10/08/02 Leftist Racism John J. Ray, Front Page Magazine Clearly, the idea that Hitler was a Rightist is probably the most successful BIG LIE of the 20th Century. He was to the Right of the Communists but that is all. [more...] .
09/12/02 Can Any Good Come Of Radical Islam? Wall Street Journal/Commentary It is the Iranians, who, having lived under Islamist rule for the past generation, are most likely to lead the Islamic world out of its current impasse. [more...] .
09/06/02 Socialists reject Owen for Bench Washington Times Democrats repeatedly stated they would not support Justice Owen because she does not fit their definition of moderation. "We can fill every vacancy on the federal bench if you send us moderate nominees who will not throw our courts out of balance," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "If you persist in sending us controversial nominees, we have no choice but to closely scrutinize their records and reject those who would bring an ideological agenda to their powerful posts on the federal bench," Mr. Schumer said. [more...] .
08/20/02 Executive Orders Jessi Winchester, Liberty for All George W. Bush is a pampered brat born into a family that spoiled him into believing he was entitled to get whatever he wanted regardless of anyone else. Everything he touches turns brown. He controlled every company into oblivion and had to rely on Daddy's rich friends to get him out of trouble. And now he is ruining our nation. [more...] .
08/16/02 The Soviets Won...Didn't They? Michael Peirce LewRockwell.com You need look no further than Washington to get a real cold chill. Militarized police, promiscuity activists, the federal Department of Education, the baby killing Supreme Court and all the other destroyers are clustered right there, encouraging an out-of-control kleptocracy. [more...] .
08/15/02 Don't eat the rich, again Jeffrey Tucker, LewRockwell.com Instead of being heralded as symbols of America’s greatest, they came to be demonized as Robber Barons. Scoundrels like Teddy Roosevelt, and all his successors in the monstrous town of Washington, D.C., would target this class, naming them not producers but parasites – the first Big Lie of a century of lies. [more...] .
08/15/02 Poof Stuart Carlson .
08/12/02 Don’t Start the Second Gulf War Doug Bandow NRO President George W. Bush says that he hasn't made up his mind about "any of our policies in regard to Iraq," but he obviously has. To not attack after spending months talking about the need for regime change is inconceivable. Unfortunately, war is not likely to be the simple and certain procedure that he and many others seem to think. [more...] .
07/29/02 ‘Lost’ on Capitol Hill Donald Lambro, Washington Times "There is considerable anecdotal evidence from Missourians and inside-the-Beltway types of both parties that Carnahan sometimes seems lost in the Senate," election analyst Charlie Cook wrote in the National Journal. [more...] .
10/08/01 War and government Michael Barone Will the war that George W. Bush and the Congress have declared on terrorism with a global reach increase the size and power of government in the United States? Are Americans, in recent decades skeptical about the efficacy of government, going to back a larger and more powerful government again? [more...] .
07/18/02 The enemy is within the gates ACT The group determined that the enemy is within the gates, that he has infiltrated into the highest policy- making positions at the Federal level, and has absolute control, not only of the purse strings, but of the troop build-up and deployment of our military forces, including active, reserve and National Guard units. [more…] .
05/16/02 Bush knew New York Post ...nobody in Washington appears to have connected the dots. [more…] .
05/10/02 Insanity reigns in San Francisco Laurie Zoloth The police told me that they had been told not to arrest anyone, and that if they did, "it would start a riot." I told them that it already was a riot. [more...] .
05/04/02 The future of conservatism by David Limbaugh townhall.com Perhaps conservatives are too quick to claim victimhood. Maybe it's time they looked at themselves and asked whether they, too, are failing in their primary mission of holding government to its proper limitations to ensure freedom. I don't think I'm being an alarmist to suggest that while we still enjoy considerable freedom today, absent a reversal of current trends, it's only a matter of time before we surrender complete authority to a paternalistic state. But we don't have to accept this fate. It's not too late... [more...] .
04/26/02 Can Libertarians Support Le Pen? by Cécile Philippe LewRockwell.com Le Pen denounces the Treaty of Maastricht and the Euro currency. Whereas all the other candidates (Chirac, Jospin …) want to build a "Big Europe," Le Pen wants to get rid of all the agreements signed in the last years, in order to get out of the Euro. He also wants to put an end to that "huge machine of laws," the Commission of Brussels. These would be very important steps toward liberty. The Euro is a very bad money in the hand of inflationists, and the Brussels Commission has amazing powers of property-rights destruction. [more...] .
04/24/02 The End Of America's Prestige by Charley Reese Where the world's great leaders will come from in the future, I don't know, but they will not be Americans. Look at the Republican and Democratic parties and their top leaders. Mediocrity in full bloom. Weak men with ambition but no principles. They are devious men, skilled at concealing their personal ambition in patriotic or compassionate rhetoric, depending on which constituency they are trying to bamboozle at the moment. [more…] .
04/24/02 Grow Up, Canada! by Ralph Raico No one will ever have the right to judge the American empire. The United States is the world hegemon, the new and infinitely more powerful Rome. [more…] .
04/21/02 Red Cross double cross by Lawrence Eagleburger WashPost 10/01 …Healy was forced out of office by a behind-closed-doors vote of the American Red Cross's Board of Governors -- not because of anything relating to the Sept. 11 tragedy but because she dared to try to right a wrong -- the wrong of denying a sovereign nation equality because of its ethnicity. …Those of us who, like Healy, believe that the American Red Cross must represent the best of our nation have lost not just a battle but a war. [more…] .
04/17/02 Were the Founding Fathers Wrong about Foreign Affairs? by Congressman Ron Paul, MD ...when I mentioned Washington the other guest on the show quickly repeated the tired cliche that "We don't live in George Washington's times." Yet if we accept this argument, what other principles from that era should we discard? Should we give up the First amendment because times have changed? How about the rest of the Bill of Rights? [more…] .
04/12/02 Carlyle's Way By Dan Briody redherring.com The Bush administration isn't afraid to mix business and politics, and no other firm embodies that penchant better than the Carlyle Group. Walking that fine line is what Carlyle does best. [more...] .
04/03/02 The Real Lincoln smeared by Thomas diLorenzo ...In a recent WorldNetDaily column the insufferably sanctimonious Alan Keyes described people like myself, Paul Craig Roberts, Walter Williams, Joe Sobran, Charles Adams, Jeffrey Rogers Hummell, Doug Bandow, Ebony magazine editor Lerone Bennett, Jr., and other Lincoln critics as "pseudo-learned scribblers," with an "incapacity to recognize moral purpose" who display "uncomprehending pettiness," are "dishonest," and, once again, his favorite word for all who disagree with him: "ignorant." [more...] .
03/27/02 The Real Lincoln by Walter Williams Americans celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, but H.L. Mencken correctly evaluated the speech, "It is poetry not logic; beauty, not sense." Lincoln said that the soldiers sacrificed their lives "to the cause of self-determination -- government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth." Mencken says: "It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves." [more...] .
03/12/02 The Calculus of Control by Kort Patterson "Snooping and gossiping have now been elevated into honored functions of protecting society from imagined threats. Those among us who have long wanted to dictate to others how to live their lives now believe they've been empowered to persecute anyone who doesn't conform to the dictator's view of a proper life-style. And these former busybodies turned defenders of society are very eager to take on this imagined new duty. [more...] .
03/09/02 The Invisible Gun by Stuart K. Hayashi Therein lies democracy’s dirty little secret. It allows the majority to vote on whether it can harm a certain minority, even though this shouldn’t even be voted on in the first place. Then the voters can call this “the will of the people.” [more...] .
03/08/02 Get out of Columbia Ron Paul Trying to designate increased military involvement in Colombia as a new front on the "war on terror" makes no sense at all. It will only draw the United States into a quagmire much like Vietnam. [ more... ] .
02/15/02 Gun Control’s New Language Reasononline 03/02 As the new congressional session gets into gear, a freshly invigorated gun control movement is preparing to act. Armed with a few questionable studies, some acid-tongued rhetoric, and vague allusions to the War on Terrorism, the anti-gun lobby is expected to hammer away relentlessly at the capital’s most prominent Second Amendment stalwart, Attorney General John Ashcroft. The former Missouri senator should find their tactics familiar: He developed a similar strategy in his own quest for expanded powers against terrorism last fall, and it appears that his very success in that campaign will serve as a road map for gun control. [ more... ] .
02/13/02 Words and Power by Joe Sobran LewRockwell.com An innocent reader of the Constitution might think that the United States should wage war only if Congress declares war. But ingenious interpretations have enabled the U.S. Government to make war many times without a formal declaration. Congress hasn’t declared war since December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. Well may you ask whether we even live under the Constitution anymore. [ more... ] .
02/09/02 Why Enron Was Government’s Fault by Brad Edmonds LewRockwell.com Everyone from accounting firms to economists to politicians has claimed publicly that the Enron debacle is the result of markets being too free. ... Below are a few of the government intrusions that made the whole fiasco possible, intrusions without which such shenanigans as the Enron executives executed would be discovered before billions of investor dollars disappeared down black holes. [ more... ] .
02/09/02 Fascism rears its head in Kansas AP Jill Rowland admits her crime. She threw away baby formula cans and a shampoo bottle. Rowland says she can't believe that she and four other Newton residents were summoned to Municipal Court and fined Thursday for violating the city's mandatory recycling law. Rowland, 26, was fined $50. [ more... ] .
02/05/02 Enron: The Real Story by Gary North LewRockwell.com Enron is the story of the month. I think it will remain in the public's eye for months to come. The media can't leave it alone. Neither can the Democrats in Congress. There is something irresistible about this story. It has greed, lies, scandal, heartbreak, and revenge. It is a prime-time soap opera. [ more... ] .
01/29/02 DOJ drapes Justice statue Washington Times According to ABC News, the "strongly religious" Mr. Ashcroft was "fed up," and could not abide waggish photographs angled to include his face and the statue's right breast... [ more... ] .
01/17/02 A reluctant empire stretches more Christian Science Monitor [A] new grand strategy for the US which involves passing the buck for enforcing security in troubled regions to Europe, Japan, and other US allies. The strategic point of many US deployments is both to enforce order and prevent other nations, including US friends, from becoming strong enough to do so. [ Jacq' says, “What?” ] Yet "the adult supervision, of the world is an enormously expensive and complex undertaking," ... [ more ... ] .
01/12/02 Everybody's shot by Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal There's a small but telling scene in Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" that contains some dialogue that reverberates, at least for me. In the spirit of Samuel Johnson, who said man needs more often to be reminded than instructed, I offer it to all, including myself, who might benefit from its message. The movie, as you know, is about the Battle of the Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993. In the scene, the actor Tom Sizemore, playing your basic tough-guy U.S. Army Ranger colonel, is in charge of a small convoy of humvees trying to make its way back to base under heavy gun and rocket fire. The colonel stops the convoy, takes in some wounded, tears a dead driver out of a driver's seat, and barks at a bleeding sergeant who's standing in shock nearby: Colonel: Get into that truck and drive. Sergeant: But I'm shot, Colonel. Colonel: Everybody's shot, get in and drive. "Everybody's shot." Those are great metaphoric words. [ more ... ] .
01/06/02 The day Ashcroft censored Freedom of Information San Francisco Chronicle The President didn't ask the networks for television time. The attorney general didn't hold a press conference. The media didn't report any dramatic change in governmental policy. As a result, most Americans had no idea that one of their most precious freedoms disappeared on Oct. 12. [ more ... ] .
01/00/02 Japan in Depression by John H. Makin, AEI Japan appears poised to follow the passive route of outright default rather than the more active route of reflation. Reflation, even if it leads beyond price stability to some inflation, is a better strategy than default because moving from deflation to rising prices taxes evenly the holders of government debt as rising prices push up interest rates and push down the value of the debt. The default approach toward which Japan is heading will be more abrupt, arbitrary, and disruptive to Japanese and global markets. Beyond financial market turmoil, abrupt default entails a significant additional risk that jeopardizes further employment and growth in Japan and worldwide. Japan's deflation and debt crisis now constitute systemic risk to the global economy. [ more... ] .
*For earlier* rants see War is Peace 2001**	*For later* rants see War is Peace 2003**