For once, I agree with Glenn Reynolds. Oh well, I guess there's a first time for everything....

Yulia Timoshenko, the Ukrainian oligarch-turned-revolutionary, says she fully expects to be made Prime Minister, now that her ally, Viktor Yushchenko, has won the presidency -- and she's already acting like she's in charge. Countermanding Yushchenko's order that the...

Is Newt peaking too early?

The wanton murder of Zaydun al-Samarrai, a 19-year-old Iraqi, by a group of U.S. soldiers who forced him to jump into the Tigris river was first revealed by Zeyad, a pro-American Iraqi blogger, who happens to be his cousin. Here is Zeyad's reaction to the slap on the...

A large explosion has been heard in the center of Baghdad...

This looks interesting. Pricey, but worth it. The career of John T. Flynn, an old-style liberal who was one of the leaders of the America First Committee, exemplifies the course followed by many other liberals and progressives of the 1930s: his opposition to Franklin...

See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Evil.

Over at The Guardian, Sidney Blumenthal considers the president's second inaugural address, recalling a line from the first:As Bush draws the sword of righteousness against the forces of darkness, the enemy being evil itself ("evildoers ... axis of evil"),...

Daniel Pipes is quietly dropped from the U.S. Institute for Peace. I wonder if this had something to do with it.

Michael Scheuer, lately of the CIA, now a bestselling author, on the tail wagging the dog: "Pro-Israel lobbyists have run an enviable 'covert action' in the United States, a former top CIA analyst said. Michael Scheuer, who wrote a best-selling book criticizing the...