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Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, two top Democratic party foreign policy mavens, were instrumental in bringing around the Democrats in the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Now they're back, with more advice: we're winning and the "surge" needs to...

A 25% increase in aid to Israel -- is anybody but Ron Paul and the pro-American government of Lebanon against it?

Here is Larisa Alexandrovna, of Raw Story, criticizing my most recent column on the Litvinenko affair -- at some length. It starts out: "Seriously, if one more person defends Putin based on the single reason that Putin stands up to Bush, I shall pull my hair out." My...

From an account (in The New Republic) of a Hillary for President rally in New Hampshire: "One last footnote: The Clintons had no more enthusiastic cheerleaders than a small clutch of people who cheered them deliriously while mysteriously waving around a foreign flag....

A great letter from a reader: "Upon reading your article, 'The Politico’s Brazen Lies About Ron Paul', I came upon the idea that what the American political world needs is a website where us simpletons can keep track of who the bad guys are. I am not trying to be...

The Republican smear machine is revving up its motors, getting ready to launch a typically vicious campaign against Ron Paul, the only real threat to their death-grip on the GOP. Since the first assault, a piece by Ryan Sager in the New York Sun, failed -- the charges...

It's been a busy week, and it's going to be an even busier weekend: I'll be speaking in Mountain View, California, this Saturday. Go here for information. I've also been blogging up a storm at Taki's Top Drawer -- go here, here, and here, for starters. Oh, and here's...

Andrew Sullivan comes down off his high horse long enough to answer my recent blog on Christopher Hitchens' 1976 article, recently unearthed and posted by the New Statesman, valorizing Saddam Hussein as "perhaps the first visionary Arab statesman since Nasser."...

I get a lot of letters, and read them all. Sometimes I get one so smart that I wan to run it on the site as an article. Of course, we have "Backtalk," our letters-to-the-editor column, but perhaps I'd better start excerpting the smartest, most interesting letters, as...