An astonishing piece by Andrew Sullivan in the Times of London on antiwar Republicans, featuring Ron Paul. Aside from the condescending airs and insulting description of Ron as a "crank" -- "even cranks have a point sometimes" -- Sullivan gives an enthusiastic account...

Ouch! I'm glad to see what's-his-name Matthew Yglesias is back in form after the transition to his new home on The Atlantic's blog -- and remind me never to get on his bad side.

From the latest issue of The American Conservative, a review by Peter Hitchens (the Good Hitchens) of John O'Sullivan's The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World: "I might add that Poland, though freed from the iron manacles of...

Ron Paul is everywhere — Here he is on CNN, with Wolf Blitzer, who can always be counted on to give out the “conventional wisdom” — and is put to rights by Ron. Blitzer blithers “He [Giuliani] really had some supporters in that auditorium. Are you ready to...

Of all the smears and epithets directed at Ron Paul by the Giuliani camp and the neocons (or do I repeat myself?), the sleaziest was upchucked by professional opportunist and political chameleon David Gergen, appearing on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360":  "I think Rudy...

In the spirit of Benito Giuliani, who demands of anyone who disagrees with him to "take it back," one of his big supporters, one Saulius "Saul" Anuzis, implements the program of the Leader: "The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said today he will try to...

Aside from the catcalls and epithets arising from the neocons, in the saner precincts of the internet the response to the sight of Ron Paul standing up to the bully Giuliani is somewhat heartening. Over at the Cato Institute, David Boaz has a perceptive analysis of...

Hike on over to National Review Online, where they're having Ron Paul Day, in the guise of a general symposium on the South Carolina Republican debate: I especially liked Kate O'Beirne's remark: "I thought [McCain's] most uncomfortable moment was during the...

In response to Ron Paul's reasonable and informed contention that our interventionist foreign policy created the "blowback" that gave rise to Al Qaeda, and 9/11, Rudy Giuliani burbled "I don't think I've ever heard that!" Of course he hasn't heard it: he's so busy...

The “war on terrorism” as a project of the “visible yet sinister group” known as the neoconservatives — that’s the theme of this brilliant and beautiful video: Andrew Sullivan, who supposedly has had a turnaround on the war, calls this “Nazi-like.”...