My commentary on recent developments in the Ron Paul campaign -- and an addendum here. An editorial note: I did not choose the title.

As usual, Matt Yglesias sums it all up in very few words: "John McCain says that "anyone who worries about how long we're in Iraq does not understand the military." On the contrary, it seems to me that McCain doesn't understand diplomacy, Iraq, foreign policy,...

In the Maryland primary yesterday, Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated by a pro-war challenger. Gilchrest voted for the Iraq War in 2003, but later said he regretted the decision. Gilchrest later criticized Bush's handling of the war and became one of...

Speaking before the American Bar Association, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, went against most of his fellow Republican politicians, at least on the subject of torture: "And I believe, unlike others in the administration, that waterboarding was, is,...

Reuters reports: "Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory."A senior U.S. administration official told reporters in Washington Bin Laden, his...

I've been busy over at Taki's Top Drawer, blogging up a storm on libertarianism, orthodox and otherwise; the politics of promiscuity, or -- who's the Paris Hilton of the Beltway pundits?; why mockery is the best weapon against the McCainiac; and the economics of doom....

An important clarification of my piece on "The Imperial Class" posted this morning: the rank-and-file military are not automatically inducted into the ranks of the imperial class, and, indeed, their interests are diametrically opposed to the agenda of the War Party...