Book Review: Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom, by Judge Andrew P Napolitano The Judge is always very easy to read, he has an ability to write in a way that keeps you moving while also making his point and you will...
Foreign Policy
New Assertions, But No New Evidence, on Russian Hacking in NSA Leak
This week, there was a new, aggressively reported story on alleged Russian hacking, based on anonymous leaks from the US intelligence community. The latest story is different in some respects, but it still follows the normal script of this genre. New assertions are...
TGIF: An Idiot Abroad
I've got a few leftover thoughts about Donald Trump's trip to Europe. (Here's what I said about the Middle East portion.) As usual, I oppose both Trump and his mainstream critics. It's possible for both sides to be wrong in a dispute. First, trade. Trump famously said...
The Moral Illegitimacy of War
“Then shall the world, at long last, say its farewell to arms? That unrealized vision, I know, is as old as arms themselves. Is it necessary to add that today, too, the obstacles are mountainous; that the temptations of violence, including the longing for revenge,...
Revisionist History Day, 2017
Today is Revisionist History Day, what others call Memorial Day. Americans are supposed to remember the country's war dead while being thankful that they protected our freedom and served our country. However, reading revisionist history (see a sampling below) or...
Trump’s Saudi Speech Filled with Alternative Facts
President Trump gave a major foreign policy speech in Saudi Arabia a week ago. The good news is that Trump's remarks were not a direct attack on Islam. The bad news is everything else. The speech was the first that Trump has given abroad, and it was also the first...
US Is Killing More Civilians in Syria Air War Than Assad Is
US Coalition Strikes Are Causing Soaring Casualties Exemplified by the hundred and some odd people they’ve killed in the last 48 hours, the US is struggling mightily with the narrative that they are taking extraordinary care to limit the number of civilian casualties...
Totalitarian Iconography and the Great War
Publisher’s Note: Another bombing in hoplophobic Albion and the UK authorities can be counted on to double down on any criticism levied against the primary religious adherents (Sunni Wahhabist Salafist jihadists funded out of the The Amphibian’s favorite ME...
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