Iraq may be a miserable place to be for most people over there, but at least the drug smugglers like it;High levels of insurgent violence and porous borders have drawn traffickers to Iraq, according to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The board says...

A U.S. Army reservist accused of attaching wires to a hooded Iraqi prisoner did so in a joke shared with the prisoner, her lawyer said at the start of a court-martial said on Thursday. Spc. Sabrina Harman, who pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy, dereliction of...

Drudge is running a story about 'controversy' supposedly stirred up by Pat Buchanan's most recent column, concerning World War 2. But reading the story is a disappointment, because it's just a list of personal smear attacks by various muckety-mucks against Buchanan....

A series of interesting posts here on MediaWatch the upshot of which is that Arthur "Good News!" Chrenkoffadmitted that he is paid by the Wall Street Journal for his efforts. Arthur sort of ...uh, denied this at first, but finally came clean. Media Watch: Where we...

I'm watching Senator George Voinovich lambasting John Bolton, the admnistration's nominee for U.S. representative to the United Nations: one almost feels sorry for Bolton. Almost, but not quite. "A poster child for what a diplomat should not be" is among the least of...

Thanks for the memories, chump. Condolences to David Horowitz.

Hospitals in Iraq are in terrible shape, as Eric Umansky reminds us. If Baghdad's biggest hospital actually runs out of sutures, what is the likely state of hospitals in more isolated areas? At least one Iraqi blogger is doing something to address the situation. Raed...

Iraqi resistance wipes out entire squad of Marines The Washington Post reports: The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border. Marines in surrounding...

Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded this column on the same subject. Prather notes that while "The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you." this is a fraud,...

In Arnaud de Borchgrave's spotlight piece today, he mentions the need for the United States and Russia to work together on the Nuclear question;Russia and America need each other today on several critical fronts, from transnational terrorism to the security of...