 A Retroactive Analysis of National Security Casus Belli for the Iraq War: Part 1
by Jonathan R
Linz has graciously allowed me to post my senior thesis here piecemeal. Since it is a draft, not due until April, I’m hoping for your most rigorous feedback.
Please note that
1. I am still working on Iraqi Collaboration with Al Qaeda outside 9/11.
2. I address Saddam’s collaboration with Al Qaeda and his deterrability, not the advisability of the war itself.
3. All my information comes from material publicly available before the war began.
See http://students.hamilton.edu/2005/jrick/thesis.htm for updates.
Thanks, Jon
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'Capitalism And Commerce: Conceptual Foundations Of Free Enterprise'-A Book That Should Be On Every Free Market Advocate's Shelf
by Patrick Q. Scheper
In today’s emotionally-charged world it is rare to find a work on political or economic theory that is reality-based, rational, and is true independent of the author’s personal experience and bias. I recently finished reading Edward W. Younkins’ Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise, and Dr. Younkins has done just that. (Read more...)
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Thursday
December 23, 2004 |
Christmas God Chow
by Garin Hovannisian
This may be a war fought between religious fanatics but it is a war that will influence the safety of critical liberties in the future. The United States is in dire need of a unified third front that will expose the intentions of the Christian and anti-Christian radicals. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 22, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - Mythmaking about the FDA
by Tibor R. Machan
Merrill Goozner is the director of the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Ralph Nader-inspired organization guided by, among others, the legendary Michael Jacobson who has been the driving force of this group from its inception. Along with other organizations, such as t... (Read more...)
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Saturday
December 18, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - Social Security: Abolition vs. Gradualism
by Tibor R. Machan
Those who love liberty may just have to put up with the gradual, imperfect approach of semi-privatization ... (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - David Brudnoy, RIP
by Tibor R. Machan
As a gay man, libertarian, and highly cultured individual he was also a cosmopolitan, and someone who believed that individual liberty is for everyone, including for homophobes who would not extend the same civilized attitude toward him. (Read more...)
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Saturday
December 11, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - The Coming Assault On Food Firms!
by Tibor R. Machan
One public policy disaster begets another and another—but governments never go out of business because of their mismanagement and the malpractice of their administrators. Instead, they dump the results of these on us all, even if we had nothing to do with the matter. My obesity ought to be my problem, not that of my neighbors. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 8, 2004 |
When I First Became a Criminal
by Adam Reed
A young woman whom I recognized from the NBI lecture was in the bookstore, leafing through W. Ross Ashby's "Introduction to Cybernetics," which I had read two years earlier. We started talking about the book, then about other things. By the time we came out of the bookstore, we were talking about the differences between Ayn Rand's and Aristotle's conceptions of rationality; and I was, for the first time in my life, in love. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 8, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - Materialism Through Equivocation
by Tibor R. Machan
Some justification exists for how Secular Humanists are treated by these critics. Quite a few secular thinkers do embrace the materialist alternative. Their false choice is that between materialism and spiritualism, where the former amounts to affirming only nature-as-pure matter as real, the latter embracing something spooky and ineffable ... namely, the ghostly supernatural. (Read more...)
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Calling Ourselves By What We REALLY Are
by Alec Mouhibian
I reject the terms “liberal” and “conservative.” “Rabid, hairy homobestial kink” would be my personal preference, or you could refer to me by my rapper pseudonym, Esinem. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Journalists And Confidentiality
by Tibor R. Machan
Usually if you aid and abet a criminal, either before or after the fact, you yourself become complicit in the crime. That would apply to you and me—should, say, my best friend tell me he’s robbed a bank and I refused to testify to knowing this, I could be prosecuted. Not so with journalists, at least not in many cases. (Read more...)
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One Down, Two to Go
by George W. Cordero
A massive Anglo-American air strike will be launched against all of the nuclear research and production stations within Iran. (Read more...)
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 Forced Funding vs Freedom
by Chris Lewis
[Editor's note: New Zealander Chris Lewis made it all the way to the Wimbledon final, against John McEnroe, in 1983. Though McEnroe gave him short shrift, Chris's gutsy semi-final against Kevin Curran still rates as one of the most memorable Wimbledon matches of recent times. It lasted just under four hours. Then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought she'd drop by, & stayed, transfixed. Chris, whom I'm proud & delighted to call "friend" as well as "hero," wrote this article for 'The Free Radical' just after the 2000 Olympics, where poor performances by New Zealand athletes sparked a clamour for more government assistance for sportspeople. - Linz] (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Marijuana Use: Medical vs. Non-Medical
by Tibor R. Machan
While the United States of America was parading itself as the leader of the free world during that Cold War era, it was mostly the champions of patriotism and loyalty to the flag who insisted on making pot consumption a crime. Their persistence led to the abomination we know as "the war on drugs." (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Why Bad Isn't The Same As Evil
by Tibor R. Machan
The determinists think there can only be one kind of cause, namely, the sort we witness in mechanics—say on the pool table when one ball causes another to move. But there could well be other types of causes—for instance, when Mozart creates music or Rembrandt paints or indeed a philosopher produces a defense of determinism. (Read more...)
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From the Horror Files: "The Battle For Your Brain"
by Joseph C. Maurone
A queer eye for the mind of the straight guy ... (Read more...)
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Saturday
November 27, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - How To Ruin Thanksgiving
by Tibor R. Machan
What is most silly ... is to go around during Thanksgiving Week fretting about weight gain just about the time when you’re about to sit down and gorge yourself on the most delicious food someone near and dear to you has cooked up with loving care. (Read more...)
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Pride Parade
by Eric Rockwell
By imagining the Pride Parade of the future, this article examines the true nature of "The Sum of all Virtues." (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 25, 2004 |
Thanksgiving
by James Kilbourne
I love Thanksgiving. It is a quintessentially American holiday, where you take the time to think about how damned lucky you are to have been born in this country. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Libertarians Are Friendly To Communities
by Tibor R. Machan
There’s no compassion where there is coercion. (Read more...)
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I Told You So
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
I was right about the Bush victory. What about the cultural and political implications of the President's triumph? (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 18, 2004 |
Nathaniel Branden Interview, Pt. 4
by Alec Mouhibian
The final part of the interview! Love, personality, ethnicity, sexual attraction, babies and procreation. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Selective Support for Choice
by Tibor R. Machan
If more people got on the same page about the issue of our individual human rights, rights that are unalienable—meaning none can lose them until his or her demise—then perhaps a coherent and united voice against state intervention could be raised and some progress could be made in the direction of rolling back government power. (Read more...)
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Saturday
November 13, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - The Bad Habit of Statism
by Tibor R. Machan
Americans live with some pretty unusual ideas and policies and even take these for granted, actually. Consider the notion of freedom of speech or of religious worship. These are unique parts of the American political and legal tradition. Even in America some people find it odd and promote, instead, some kind of theo... (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 11, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - Barbaric Insurgents
by Tibor R. Machan
Even in the process of retaliation that's prima facie warranted one must not abandon the principle of individual rights. Until this point sinks in with the parties involved, none of the outcries in behalf of the terrorists and those whom they wish to serve in some capacity can have any credibility. (Read more...)
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