The Rumsfeldian streamlining of the military continues. It will now be much, much easier to identify and destroy targets. Yay!

If you ever wanted to hear a bunch of US Senators get told off, here's your chance.George Galloway: Your case for war was a pack of lies.MP3 courtesy of Crooks and Liars (they have a Realplayer video version if you prefer)Are the documents implicating Galloway...

Glenn Reynolds writes: I want to add that I don't think there's anything immoral about flushing a Koran (or a Bible) down the toilet, assuming you've got a toilet that's up to that rather daunting task, and I think it's amusing to hear people who usually worry about...

While debate rages in the blogosphere about the flushability of Korans, the warbots dream of sending a much smaller document to the goldfish graveyard. More links and must-read commentary here.

The Telegraph is reporting that the RAF Hercules which crashed January 30, 2005 - the day of the Iraqi elections - was downed by an AA weapon.An interim Ministry of Defence report has ruled out almost everything apart from enemy fire and it was suggested that a...

George Lucas conceived Star Wars in part as a criticism of Nixonian America and the Vietnam War (the Endor battle scenes in Return of the Jedi are intended partly as a Vietnam sequence). Now, at the premier of Revenge of the Sith, he says "When I wrote it, Iraq (the...

A radical shift in US war planning towards preemptive surprise attacks of a purely technological nature (bombing, space weapons) is the subject of a new article by William M. Arkin in the Washington Post. It seems that Washington is moving towards conflict resolution...

All right, what's the deal with this weird rally? Glenn Reynolds is flogging it, so there's a clue. The other vector appears to be Horowitz. Hussein Ibish, pointing out the absurd list of "sponsors" (Like Free Republic's RighTalk, a dress shop in Arizona and a couple...

Martial at De Spectaculis looks skeptically at the idea that the Newsweek article about Koran-flushing is the cause of the riots in Afghanistan, pointing out that similar stories have been in circulation since 2003.

Arthur Silber explains the importance of being ignorant – for believers in the global democratic revolution, that is.