From the Telegraph (UK): District Judge Jonathan Finestein said the decision to prosecute the youngster—accused of calling a fellow pupil a “Paki” and a “nigger” – was “political correctness gone mad”. He attacked the police for not “bothering” to prosecute more serious crime such as car theft but readily picking on a “silly” incident. He added that he used to be called fat at school and said that in the

     “ONCE UPON A TIME, in a Red State not far away, lived a man who refused to admit that BUSH LIED!      “And so it came as no surprise when, as a just universe demands, this blinkered wingnut was struck by lightning on one of his afternoon jaunts to bend the handlebars on the neighborhood children’s bicycles and awoke to find himself in Hell—red and blistered as Maureen Dowd’s ass after

I’ve written a bit about the loose political coalition that formed to keep George Bush in office in 2004, a coalition that included libertarians like Steve Green and Glenn Reynolds who found a certain wisdom in the idea of a exporting a strong national defense to fight international terrorism.  But what I haven’t noted much is the increasing tendency of certain anti-war libertarians to try to tear down their pro-war

I had the opportunity to have a few drinks with a visiting Matt Heidt (formerly of Froggy Ruminations) last evening, who was in from California on business.  One of the topics we spent a good deal of time discussing is how the US might (and should) handle growing Iranian nuclear threat.  Neither of us found any of the options particularly promising—premising our conversation on the shared assertion that, even though