The Smugglers of Old New York.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 19th at 05:30 PM  | 

So I hear (as did our own Dan McLaughlin, last week) that New York is the place to go for an exciting and remunerative career in the cigarette-smuggling trade: Last week, The Mackinac Center for Public Policy released a report chronicling the rate of cigarette smuggling in the United States, revealing what retailers in New York have long known: state-to-state smuggling has become a big | Read More »

Mickey Kaus, Barack Obama, and ‘Humanitarian Imperialism.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 28th at 11:00 AM  | 

“Humanitarian imperialism” is the phrase Mickey’s come up with to describe Whatever The Heck It Is We’re Doing These Days In Eurasia, and it’s a good one.  It’s also one that implies a constant, low-level state of war that goes a good deal beyond the one that we’re in now; and I should make a distinction here between the Bush and the (unstated) Obama Doctrines.  | Read More »