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01/27/2003 Archived Entry: "ET TU, REASON?"

LIBERAL BEGINS SCREWING UP REASON MAGAZINE: I was wary when I heard that Tim Cavanaugh, ex- of Suck.com, had been hired to work at Reason's web site. I wish libertarians would stay away from both liberals and conservatives. Little good ever comes of it.

Eugene Volokh isn't too happy with Cavanaugh right now. Seems Cavanaugh decided to slam the U.S. government on the grounds that once a war starts "the state will advance when it gets seriously down to the business of stealing everything in Iraq that isn't nailed down."

Like Volokh, I take it that "the state" in question is the U.S. government. Responds Volokh:

"Huh? What exactly is the evidence for the very serious accusation that the U.S. government is likely to try to 'steal everything in Iraq that isn't nailed down'? Conventional wisdom is that the war and the reconstruction of Iraq will be a net cost to the government, not a net benefit (and this is an argument sometimes made by anti-war forces), and here I think the conventional wisdom is right."

Read all of Volokh's response to Cavanaugh here and hope that the once great Reason isn't flushed down some liberal toilet.