
Hoist on his own petard: David Frum fired by American Enterprise Institute - Brainiac blog
Back 2003 Frum called for a purge of those from center-right institutions who opposed the Iraq war for their lack of ideological purity. But now (symbolically of course) he is the one who is getting the "ice-pick-to-the-head" treatment. Heh.
Civilized people don't need no stinkin' state entity! - Free The Animal (Richard Nickoley)
Rich is a little too harsh sometimes, but he's really on the right track over all, IMO.
Neo-Liberal economics just don't add up. - Front Porch Republic (J.M. Wilson)
"In effect, free trade necessitates the creation of a huge state super-structure: continuous military intervention abroad and corporate welfare and the welfare state at home. But this arrangement cannot normalize itself, cannot set itself up as the permanent order for which it mistakenly takes itself. Rather, such complex military and financial forms keep the external forms of the nation in place while it eviscerates its once productive internal organs."