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Sep 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Fiscal Good Sense From a Neoconfederate

So I had this audio clip I liked of Thomas Woods speaking at the Ron Paul convention and explaining that there’s nothing fiscally conservative about an indefinite occupation of Iraq:

But I had no idea who Thomas Woods was, so it didn’t seem all that reasonable to cite some totally unknown person. But today, posting on a loosely related matter, James Kirchick points out that Woods is a founding member of the League of the South. That, I think, is noteworthy enough to make it worth posting and it goes to show that even neo-confederates can be right about some stuff. Or else that even people who are right about some stuff can have totally repugnant views about other things.

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Anderson Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I’m glad that Mr. Woods’s views on long-term occupation by Federal troops are … consistent.
crack Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I recognized the name from my days of perusing lewrockwell.com. That was before I found theagitator.com, which is a much better libertarian site imo.
Joe Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Case in point- Kirchik, who has liberal views on gay rights, and repugnant views on just about everything else.
TACreader Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
A kind of McCarthyite smearing typical of Kirchik but not of Yglesias. Woods joined League of the South in college, kind of like Leon Wieseltier joining the Jewish Defense League (probably for similar kind of reasons). He’s an interesting Catholic reactionary conservative, with at least one serious academic book to his credit, and some pop history best sellers. You’d profit from reading him, disagreeing with him. Little Kirchik would not.
24AheadDotCom Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Wow. This is like a swamp. From a comment at the TNR link: really, wouldn’t we be better served by an engagement with the contents of the book than by this superficial dustup over the extent of the ghostwriter’s credit? The book could have been cribbed from the back of a Wheaties box for all I care; what matters is the quality of the ideas in the text.

And, of course, the SPLC and JK himself are the ones telling us that the LOS is bad. I don’t know much about them, but their WP page has a statement from them supporting equal treatment for all, etc. And, the SPLC is known for inflating issues for some $trange rea$on or other. And, they also cooked some figures they used to make them look worse. And, of course, JK isn’t exactly known for being able to figure things out or accurately represent matters.

Tip: if a friend wants you to link to something, check it out first. Then, make an excuse if your friend’s post isn’t up to your usual high standards.
Chris Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
“even people who are right about some stuff can have totally repugnant views about other things.”

Matt, in order for Jamie Kirchirk to qualify for this balance of good feelings and disrepute, shouldn’t he have to say something *else* that’s accurate, instead of just having the one thing make up for his other repugnant views?

Oh, I see, you were talking about Woods. Never mind…
Swan Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Or else that even people who are right about some stuff can have totally repugnant views about other things.

Or that people who have totally repugnant views about some things can pretend to have popular views about other things in an attempt to attract more supporters (what the Republicans do every election cycle, but never really deliver on their populist pretensions).
Selfreferencing Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 1:42 am
I write as a personal friend of Tom Woods. First, yes, he joined the League of the South at … nineteen. We forgive people for doing lots of stuff at nineteen.

Also, he’s really a hilarious, brilliant and delightful human being. Watch him lecture here: http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=search&q=Woods

Another thing: Tom graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a history BA and summa cum laude from Columbia with a history PhD. He’s written a variety of scholarly articles and is a very serious thinker. What’s more, he’s not a neoconfederate. He’s a market anarchist.
TE Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Or that people who have totally repugnant views about some things can pretend to have popular views about other things in an attempt to attract more supporters (what the Republicans do every election cycle, but never really deliver on their populist pretensions).

Woods must be pretending really hard if he’s not really antiwar: here he is talking about he book on war he wrote with a leftist: http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods95.html
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