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<span>Posted:</span> 09 Feb 2011 12:01 PM PST</p>
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<p>Antiwar.com economic columnist David Henderson speaks
Wednesday night (2/9) at UC Berkeley. The event is
sponsored by Students for Liberty. Here are the
details from the group:</p>
<p>Our club’s first speaker event of this semester will
be held this WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH from 7-8:30 PM at
209 DWINELLE HALL (UC Berkeley). Professor David R.
Henderson will lecture on the tremendous costs of
America’s current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from
both the standpoints of economics and public policy.
Continuing with our new tradition, there will be a
casual social event following the lecture.</p>
<p>David R. Henderson is a professor at the Naval
Postgraduate School and a research fellow with the
Hoover Institution. He is the author of <em>The Joy
of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey</em> and editor
of <em>The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics</em>.
His articles have appeared in the <em>New York Times</em>,
the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>Fortune</em>,
the <em>Christian Science Monitor</em>, <em>Reason</em>,
and many other publications. He has appeared on The
O’Reilly Factor, CNN, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, and the
John Stossel show. He has testified before various
committees of the U.S. Congress. This should
doubtlessly be an exciting lecture, so I encourage you
to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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to the Facebook Event and invite your friends</a>.</p>
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Iran Talking Points</a>
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<span>Posted:</span> 09 Feb 2011 11:23 AM PST</p>
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<p><em>from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.lobelog.com/">LobeLog</a>: News
and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for
February 9th, 2011:</em></p>
<p><em><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704843304576126393150812416.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">The
Wall Street Journal</a></em>: Kenneth M. Pollack,
director of the Saban center at the Brookings
Institution, opines, “Could al Qaeda Hijack Egypt’s
Revolution?” and observes, “the Iranian regime is also
gleeful about the collapse of Mr. Mubarak, one of
America’s most important Arab allies and one of
Tehran’s most passionate enemies.” He continues,
“Iran’s mullahs often see opportunity in chaos and
violence, believing that anything that disrupts the
region’s American-backed status quo works to their
advantage,” and concludes, “All of this gives Iran and
al Qaeda common interests that may drive them toward
tacit cooperation—with the goal of fomenting a modern
Bolshevik Revolution.”</p>
<p><em><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/58461/jewel-of-the-nile/">Tablet
Magazine</a></em>: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hudson_Institute">Hudson
Institute</a> visiting fellow <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_lee">Lee
Smith</a> argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is
still a radicalizing force in Egypt and calls Yussuf
al-Qaradawi, the Qatar-based Muslim Brotherhood
preacher who exiled himself from Egypt in 1961, a
“prospective Khomeini.” Qaradawi, who hosts the show
“Shariah and Life” on Al Jazeera, “has cultivated
among some American analysts a reputation for
moderation with his fatwas, permitting masturbation
and condemning Sept. 11 (while supporting suicide
bombers in Israel),” says Smith. Smith goes on to
argue, “While the parallels between Iran in 1979 and
Egypt in 2011 can be overdrawn, it is foolish to
pretend that they are not there,” and warns, “To the
Iranians, Qaradawi is perhaps not the ideal voice of
Sunni Islamism, but insofar as he rises and the
Americans suffer, Tehran will make its
accommodations.”</p>
<p><em><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/58461/jewel-of-the-nile/">Los
Angeles Times</a></em>: Jonah Goldberg writes a
column on “The real realism in Israel” in which he
argues against linkage and supports the view that the
current unrest in Egypt has nothing to do with Israel.
Goldberg, who is at the Herzliya Conference, on a trip
underwritten by the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/emergency_committee_for_israel">Emergency
Committee for Israel</a>, says that proponents who
see an Israeli-Palestinian peace process as a key U.S.
foreign policy goal, such as <a
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href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=207259&R=R1">Gen.
James Jones</a>, are detached from reality. “Such
thinking falls somewhere between wild exaggeration and
dangerous nonsense,” says Goldberg. He goes on to
argue, “As we’ve recently been reminded, Israel is the
only truly democratic regime in the region, and
therefore the most stable. But, we are told, if we
were only more conciliatory to corrupt dictatorial
regimes and more sympathetic to the ‘Arab street,’ the
region would be more stable. (Ironically, this is very
close to Israel’s own position, no doubt because it
will take any peace it can get.)”</p>
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Maddow in Shock: Tea Partiers Defeat PATRIOT Act</a>
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<span>Posted:</span> 08 Feb 2011 06:20 PM PST</p>
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<p>Rachel Maddow is using her “report” on the Republican
tea caucus <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/gop-freshmen-help-derail-patri.html">blocking
the extension of the PATRIOT Act </a>to replay her
“interview” with Rand Paul, and rail about abortion.
Rant all you want, Rachel, but people are noticing
that you haven’t even mentioned the Act <em>several
minutes</em> into your tirade.</p>
<p>Is this ad-libbed?</p>
<p>She misses, of course, the real story: which is that
the libertarian wing of the GOP is defending what’s
left of our civil liberties. There she is with a big
Glenn Beck-like chart, explaining that there are two
kinds of conservatives: libertarians and
authoritarians. According to her — and me — the GOP
party establishment has paid lip service to liberty,
in the abstract, but in reality it has been quite the
opposite. Everybody claims to be a “libertarian,” but
when they get into power it’s a different story. Never
mind that Democrats vote with them — they started it,
according to Rachel. It’s all the Republicans’ fault.</p>
<p>And she still hasn’t mentioned that the Tea Party
made the difference on the PATRIOT Act….</p>
<p>C”,mon, Rachel, you’re supposed to be reporting — and
maybe even commenting on — the news.</p>
<p>OH WAIT — She’s finally mentioned it,<em> over five
minutes</em> into her rant: “26 Republicans bucked
their own party on this vote.” It’s “man bites dog” —
Republicans voting against the Act “from the right.”
And now they’re questioning Afghanistan. “What happens
to American politics now?” she asks. “It’s a
realignment.”</p>
<p>The evil smirking Thomas Frank is being brought in,
at this point, so I’m changing the channel….</p>
<p>But as to what Rachel said about a realignment:
that’s right, but it isn’t going to stop there. We’ve
been doing our job here at Antiwar.com, reaching out
to the Right on foreign policy and civil liberties
issues, for fifteen years now, along with many others.
That campaign is reaping a harvest, and the resulting
cornucopia is going to astonish the country.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Oh, and by the way, hours after the PATRIOT
Act went down to defeat, Matt Drudge has yet to report
it. Instead, we have the red-hot news that a Texas
school district is having second thoughts about making
the study of Arabic mandatory.</p>
<p>UPDATE 2: On the other side of the divide, the
newly-AOL-ized Huffington Post headlines: “<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/house-rejects-extensions-patriot-act_n_820554.html">Beyond
Left and Right: House Defeats Patriot Act Extension</a>,”
but the story doesn’t live up to its billing. Rep.
Dennis Kucinich is quoted, but not a single Republican
who voted “nay,” and the phrase “tea party” is nowhere
to be found. Beyond left and right? Not quite.</p>
<p>UPDATE 3: The Washington Post <a
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href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020806345.html?hpid=topnews">got
it right</a>, for once:</p>
<p><em>“House Republicans suffered an embarrassing
setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of
extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that
served as the first small uprising of the party’s
tea-party bloc.”</em></p>
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