Via Laura Rozen: "The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and the Vice Chairman, Senator Kit Bond, announced today that the Committee has adopted its Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about...
The American style of colonialism is taking shape, and what seems to be developing is a certain peevish paternalism, colored with vivid shades of condescension. The BBC reports this highlight from Dick Cheney's Baghdad trip: "The vice-president also held talks with...
The Scottish people sent a message to formerly "Great" Britain in the recent elections: "Scottish nationalists committed to independence from Britain became the biggest party in the Scottish parliament on Friday in elections which left a political headache for Prime...
National Review's T.J. Walker on the only authentic .... person in last night's GOP debate: "Ron Paul has the unfortunate distinction of looking and sounding wacky and impish, even when he says entirely reasonable things. He brilliantly and succinctly positioned his...
Speaking of Reason magazine being clueless and all: now that scientists have found significant abnormalities in the brains of veterans afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome and normal folks, will the magazine that increasingly doesn't deserve its name apologize to all the...
Is somebody in the government trying to shut down the Cryptome web site?
The spin on the GOP debate last night is just getting up to speed. Here's good ol' David Weigel of Reason magazine, "Ron Paul is asked why everyone on stage was wrong about the war, and Paul sticks to 'a policy of non-intervention.' He's a bit loud, but more concise...
A "defense" pact recently signed by the U.S. and the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro, formerly a province of Yugoslavia nestled in the eastern corner of the Adriatic shore, is a "status of forces" agreement which, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,...
I'm live-blogging the Republican debate. 5:12 PM PST -- It's almost 15 minutes into the Republican "debate," and not one question has been directed at Ron Paul by the two moderators. What's up with that? On Iraq: We must "stand up," say them all (but Ron). Finally,...
Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli scientist who exposed the secret of Israel's nukes, was recently convicted, according to this Reuters report, of "giving a slew of interviews to international media outlets over the past three years, defying a government order on him to...
