Western liberals can be so hypocritical. On one hand, their arguments were against the Bush administration for attempting to bring Western-style democracy to Iraq, saying that we must not presume to tell an ancient culture how to run their own nation. On the other, they’re now angry that we’re going to allow that […]

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To all the readers of this blog, to Stephen and his wife and son; peace and happiness this Christmas.
John Wright
johnwright@libertarianreason.com

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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a piece last week* in which she teased 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama about his big ears. Well it seems he can’t quite handle that. Microphones picked up a conversation he had with Dowd after a speech of his in New Hampshire last Sunday:
“You […]

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An old friend of ours, William Crawley (right), has a blog here to which both Stephen and I contribute comments fairly frequently these days. I mention this because, as Libertarian Reason has been rather quiet and time hasn’t permitted Stephen or myself to blog as much as we’d like to, Will’s blog appears to […]

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s furious backpeddling after her comments disparaging America at a press event in Spain over the weekend is really fairly pathetic. She says she mistranslated her own words into Spanish and would “never, ever” have said what she was quoted as saying. However, as the irrepressible Michelle Malkin points out in the […]

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