"Taliban Say They Killed Women Poll Workers" – the Taliban still show themselves to be heartless scum, proudly vaunting the fact they killed women poll workers and children. Let us remember the immense courage RAWA displayed showed for many, many years in the...
If you're looking for some reading material this weekend, check out the current dead-tree issue of The American Conservative, featuring an interesting interview with Ralph Nader and a review of Sean Hannity's latest masterpiece by moi (not available online).
The definitive al-Qaeda-Iraq connection. What they won't be mentioning:The document states that Iraq agreed to rebroadcast anti-Saudi propaganda [mid 1990s], and that a request from Mr. bin Laden to begin joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia went...
A reader responds to this January post with this plea regarding Romania's (read: the European Union's) tyrannical new adoption law:This law is breaking the hearts of families around the world. The law is cruel to the Romanian children and loving families that wish to...
Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi blogger, shares his personal views on the June 30th "liberation" of Iraq.The American army is building six permanent bases in Iraq, three surrounding Baghdad, one in the south, on in the east and on in the north. The three surrounding Baghdad are...
Col. Lounsbury whacks the idiots in the CPA, ruthlessly criticizing their utter failure from the perspective of a businessman in Baghdad trying to work with them. After reading Lounsbury's scathing commentary, you'll really appreciate this delicious skewering of Ari...
Michael Froomkin and Billmon both have good posts up about yesterday's White House and Pentagon document dump. Froomkin concentrates on the order signed by Bush on Feb. 7, 2002, which contains what Froomkin refers to as the " Royalist theory of Presidential power," in...
Great line from this Seattle Times article.
According to a Washington-based intelligence newsletter Defense and Foreign Affairs, Bosnia's viceroy "Paddy" Ashdown's eagerness to support his late friend Alija Izetbegovic resulted in a major blow to anti-terrorism intelligence efforts on the eve of the Athens...
Be sure to check out Gene Callahan's blog. I'm a little hesitant to promote a blog so narrowly fixated on "philosophy, religion, theology, economics, sociology, history, physics, mathematics, politics, current events, computers, sports, art, culture, programming...
