It looks like Julian Sanchez has got the goods on the guy at the RNC who kicked the female protester who was already on the ground. Turns out he's a hard-core Republican Bushista who interns at the National Taxpayers Union. Check out the links in Julian's post,...
UPDATE (9/17 6:30EST): One Marine killed on Friday. UPDATE (9/16 8pm EST): The number keeps rising. Recently, the Department of Defense and CentCom have made a habit out of not reporting US fatalities in Iraq until days if not weeks after they occur. This week was...
Riverbend: September 11… he sat there, reading the paper. As he reached out for the cup in front of him for a sip of tea, he could vaguely hear the sound of an airplane overhead. It was a bright, fresh day and there was much he had to do… but the world suddenly went...
What will the Taiwan lobby scream?Ex-State Official Charged in Taiwan Trip A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a...
One of the worst things about this war (and the cluster of quasi-libertarian arguments used to justify it) has been the incredible mental toll it has inflicted on libertarianism. Instead of tending our own garden – working to smash, reduce, or at least slow the state...
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad:Yesterday, sitting in the office, another photographer who was looking at my pictures exclaimed: "So the Arabiya journalist was alive when you were taking pictures!" "I didn't see the Arabiya journalist." He pointed at the picture of the guy with...
Lawrence of Cyberia writes an interesting argument about the genesis of HAMAS, why Al Qaeda has never been involved in the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and why Israel's tactics might bring Al Qaeda into Palestine in the future. He introduces this...
Veteran war correspondent Scott Taylor, well-known to readers of Antiwar.com, was released after five days by kidnappers in Iraq. During that time, Scott was badly beaten, chained, blindfolded and handcuffed during his ordeal and repeatedly threatened with beheading...
In keeping with the US policy of leaving no aspect of the invasion or occupation of Iraq unbotched, the American military is currently assaulting and laying siege to the Turkmen city of Tal Afar. In order to provoke maximum opposition and outrage, they are being...
On Thursday, Congress passed a resolution that was amended to specifically link the War in Iraq to 9/11. The sponsor of the resolution, Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) responded to critics, saying "there is a direct connection between the war in Iraq and the bombing of Sept. 11."...
