Chris Matthews just called Andrew Sullivan "a cock-eyed optimist" for insisting that the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi election is going to be a resounding success. He's got the first syllable right....

I never thought I'd miss party-lining neocon Kate O'Beirne's absence from "Capital Gang," but all i can say to Ramesh Ponnuru is: You got that right .

Remember the scary Chinese terrorists that were going to blow up Boston?The FBI said a Chinese woman wanted in connection with an alleged terrorist plot against Boston has been in a U.S. Customs detention facility since November and doesn't appear to have terrorist...

Here's an interesting survey by the APME on the use of graphic photos, courtesy of Ryan at Dead Parrots Society. Here's Ryan's accompanying article: Readers, journalists struggle with same issues in publishing graphic photos. Another APME survey to talk about, about...

Why do they hate us?

Zeyad at Healing Iraq has an interesting post on the elections. I'm not sure how right he is in his assessment, but then it's probably impossible for anyone to gather much information with the chaotic conditions prevalent right now in Iraq. Some interesting...

Iraqi election restrictions:Driving on the streets will be restricted, Al-Nakib said, to elections supervisors and other officials.And, Walking in and around the polling places will be restricted, Al-Nakib said.Does anyone see a problem here, or am I missing something?

Saturday, between 4 and 6PM ET, Scott Horton will be interviewing former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Listen live on the Republic Broadcasting Network.

Okay, so no one liked the Bush inaugural speech, with prominent conservatives like Peggy Noonan and Bill Buckley making plain their dismay at its militant wackiness. And no wonder, just look at the wackos who had a hand in it, according to the Los Angeles Times: "As...

Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush's inaugural speech: "If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn't mean it … [and] that it was merely an inspirational...