by Erik Kain on November 8, 2011
Liberals defend Obama on his political victories at home and abroad, but they should focus more on his Bush-era national security policies and other broken promises. In 2008, during the aftershocks of the housing market and financial collapse and the fall of Lehman Brothers, and amidst the increasingly frightening din of anti-Obama sentiment that was [...]
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I’m not surprised that Congressman Ron Paul of Texas has condemned the US Government’s assassination of American citizen and Islamic radical, Anwar al-Awlaki. This fits his general anti-interventionist framework. What amuses me is the headline at MSNBC where it’s being reported: Notice the scare quotes around the word assassinating. Because, you know, when the US [...]
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Steven Pinker has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on the decline of violence across the world, and the decline of war. Pinker suggests a number of reasons for the decline in war, from the state’s monopoly on violence to the rise of global commerce. He also includes this chart: Charts like [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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