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The Wizards of Washington

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Remember that telling scene in The Wizard of Oz when Toto reveals the “great and powerful wizard” as nothing but a homunculus operating an imposing thunder-and-lightning machine? “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” he bellows, not knowing enough to quit even when he’s exposed. The government’s response to the current economic turmoil reminds me of that scene. We are assured by the awe-inspiring U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve that if we trust them with essential control of the American economy, all will be set right. “Have confidence. We know what we we’re doing” is the gist of what they say. Behind the curtain, however, are just a bunch of bureaucrats who couldn’t possibly put the economy right because no one can know how to do that. The required information is unavailable to them. They would be better able to give a cowardly lion courage, a tin man a heart, or a scarecrow a brain. Sloppy metaphors to the contrary, ...

Hornberger’s Blog, February 2009

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Friday, February 27, 2009 Legalize Drugs Instead of Banning Guns by Jacob G. Hornberger In an editorial this morning sarcastically entitled “The Drug Cartel’s Right to Bear Arms,” the New York Times is climbing aboard the drug-war/gun-control bandwagon. Here’s how the reasoning goes: The Mexican drug-war cartels are killing people with assault rifles. The weapons are purchased in gun shops in the United States and illegally smuggled into Mexico. Therefore, if we just enact a ban on assault weapons, the violence in Mexico will disappear. The bandwagon was set into motion by the U.S. Justice Department, which recently pronounced that the Mexican drug cartels are “a threat to national security.” Attorney General Eric Holder immediately jumped on board with his call for a new assault-weapons ban. Threat to national security? Now, where have we heard that before? You guessed it: The Terrorists! You know, those scary people that the U.S. government is waging war against for the rest of everyone’s lives. You know ...

Private: Was the “Good War” Unnecessary? Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan (New York: Crown Publishers, 2008); 518 pages. Of all the wars the United States has fought, World War II is the most universally celebrated. It was the “Good War,” despite being the bloodiest in world history. Only in the Civil War did more Americans perish. But World War II is seen as the best example of the nation mobilizing completely and righteously to combat evil itself. In Britain and America, many consider Winston Churchill the greatest Englishman ever, perhaps the Man of the 20th Century, because he pushed for war against the Nazi regime when others favored appeasement. In America, Churchill’s belligerent foresight, in stark contrast to the “isolationist” Americans ...