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Maybe There Is Such Thing as Bad Publicity

This is why I wrote my post about Arizona. Folks, those of you who are an-caps in the crowd, you have to realize that the people at ThinkProgress are salivating at the quotes this guy is giving them. He is to them, what those nutjob environmental commercials were to Glenn Beck. (And you see the […]

Prince of Peace, but God of Justice

On Facebook someone (who shall remain anonymous to preserve Facebook etiquette) hailed Jesus as the Prince of Peace, and asked that militaristic Christians reflect on that title this Christmas season. In the comments, someone was challenging this view, by pointing to aggressive statements that Jesus made. In response, the original poster analyzed the context of […]

Murphy Triple Play

* I wrote this a while ago, but it slipped through the cracks. The people at Campaign for Liberty wanted me to rough up Greg Ip and his “myths” about QE, which I was only too happy to do. (Incidentally, I know some readers thought I had been unfair to Ip when I blogged about […]

Love Your Enemies

I think David R. Henderson is great, especially on tough-guy issues of war, but I think even he doesn’t go far enough in this piece, “What Game Theory Can Tell Us About Terrorism”: In December 1996, I took this other-person’s-shoes approach with a group of Defense Department officials when I commented on a paper by […]

“Christian Warriors” Give the Government Exactly What It Wants

I am not going to comment on the details of this story, since we have seen how many times in the past the initial reports bear only a remote resemblance to the actual truth. But if in fact 9 “Christian Warriors” were plotting to kill policemen (at a funeral?!), I can only reiterate that this […]