The American Mind

Unlike some of us, I had to work last night and didn’t hear the State of the Union address. I can make no comments until I read the transcript.

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Is Hamid Karzai the first Afghan leader to witness a State of the Union speech first hand?

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A fine portrait of the 20th Century’s greatest economist, F. A. Hayek sits in London’s National Portrait Gallery. [via Greg Ransom]

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E. J. Dionne jumps on the “Enron proves campaign finance reform is needed” bandwagon, but admits,

It shouldn’t have taken Enron to move campaign reform up the list of congressional priorities. Enron didn’t invent influence peddling in Washington. But Enron does create delicate problems for both political parties. If there was ever a time to be [...]

The Motley Fool will be charging to get on their famous message boards.
“Motley Fool Courts Online Subscribers“

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Tom Tomorrow, the comic artist who isn’t very funny, friviously tosses out this bit of conspiracy kookiness: “We’ve got at least one mysterious death–the apparent suicide of a former Enron executive who, from all reports, had nothing to hide, but was expected to be a major whistleblower in the case.”
Tom would be mentioning the [...]

The Washington Post goes Pulitzer with their series on the days following 9.11.01. The first story follows President Bush from the moment he’s told about the attacks until he finally sleeps in the White House after addressing the nation. The second part reports on the day after, including the development of the strategy [...]

The terrorists held in Cuba aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. That’s the impression I got when Secretary Don Rumsfeld said, “They will not be determined to be POWs [Prisoners of War].” He won’t call them POWs because then they would have to be released after the war is over in Afghanistan. The [...]

While still in the talking stage, Miller Brewing could change from a stagnating No. 2 U.S. brewer to a growing No. 1 world brewer. Miller’s headquarters would still be in Milwaukee, the name would still be on the Brewers’ stadium, and no local jobs would be cut.
“Miller May be Merged into World’s No. 1 [...]

A military commander for North American defense makes sense. Military response in future domestic attacks should be streamlined. I worry that mission creep could occur, and this new regional command could start getting involved with stuff like immigration and drug interdiction. Those are areas best left to civilian law enforcement. I [...]

2002 is already becoming a great year for music. Nine Inch Nails just let loose a live album, the Chemical Brothers will be releasing their new collection of songs, and Rush will be coming out with their first album in five years this spring. Here’s hoping these great artists live up to my [...]

Brian Doherty notes that later in his life, Robert Nozick moved away from the anarchistic political theory in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick thought the State was a symbolic mechanism for channeling “private actions and concerns toward” problems.
Note that the libertarian Doherty doesn’t reject Nozick’s thinking because he wasn’t a “pure” libertarian or classical [...]

A deep belief and passion in a company is considered “cultish” in Froma Harrop’s opinion. If Enron’s employees were brainwashed, then the same could be said about certain Star Wars fans, political pundits, even webloggers.
“Enron Cultists Follow the Leader” [via blogdex]

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Eric Burns thinks newspapers and all-news cable channels can more fully cover the Enron story. “The former can run articles with an indefinite number of column inches; the latter can run interviews with experts that take up as much time as required,” writes Burns.
I’ll give the edge to newspapers. All-news channels are dependent [...]