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BMS ep 195: Scott Horton on Osama bin Laden’s Plan to Take Down the US

Audio here, video below. Some hard-hitting stuff.

Potpourri

==> Tom Woods interviews Scott Horton on his new book about Afghanistan. ==> Brittany Hunter on the “sunk cost fallacy” vis-a-vis Afghanistan. ==> Tyler Cowen weighs in on the issue of public shaming. This was interesting: I see many people who have behaved very badly — and here I mean legally convicted criminals — but […]

More On Ahmed’s Clock

From a guy who actually knows about electronics (as opposed to 90% of the people commenting on this story–including me). I don’t know what happened here. It’s entirely possible that he made the thing innocently enough, and then was coy about it once he realized the situation. I really doubt that he apologized profusely for […]

The Myth of a Secure Military

[UPDATE below.] On NPR today they were talking about cybersecurity. The host made a throwaway remark along the lines that with private businesses, you couldn’t expect a full-throated response to the threats his expert guests were discussing, because they responded to the profit motive and it “wasn’t like Los Alamos.” Here the host was referring […]

Potpourri

==> David R. Henderson on the Nobel. ==> When reading posts like this from Bryan, I wonder if he hands out the syllabus on the first day of class that just says “YOU WILL GET NOTHING FROM THIS CLASS” at the top. ==> MoveOn.org starts a petition to arrest Republicans in Congress for sedition. I’m […]

Potpourri

I’m almost giddy for tonight’s Potpourri. I don’t know if I’m in a good mood and see the creativity and courage out there in the blogosphere, or if my blogging peers are all having a good week. In any event, here goes: ==> Paul Krugman recently wrote that the US was doing pretty good during […]

Ademo Freeman and Fear, the State’s Primary Weapon

Since his conviction on August 13, I have been meaning to publicize the case of Adam Meuller, aka Ademo Freeman. He is the founder of CopBlock.org, a site dedicated to the peaceful yet persistent pursuit of police perfidy. The folks at CopBlock do things like post videos of cops beating the heck out of people, […]

US Government on Libya: Before and After

Here’s President Obama talking about the US government’s goals for Libya. You can safely move the pointer to the 1:00 mark. Now here’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (HT2 LRC): (You just know those Arab terrorists–the irrational bloodthirsty lovers of violence–are going to misinterpret the second one. So paranoid. “The Americans are out to get […]