During the Clinton years, hating Hillary Clinton was a cottage industry on the Right. Now that she is moving toward a presidential run, and trying to position herself as a "centrist," disdain for the former First Lady is now pandemic on the Left. Her recent appearance...
Streaming Atrocities
A four-minute video of a Marine singing a "song" about killing an iraqi family may be a hit with the War Party, but it is provoking widespread disgust -- and an investigation. AP reports: "The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman...
It Was Never About Rove
Matt Drudge is kvetching about the slowness of the left-blogosphere in reacting to the announcement that Karl Rove will not be charged with any crimes in the Plame investigation, but regular readers of Antiwar.com will not be surprised by this turn of events --...
Weekend Reading
Now that you have some time to yourself, this Memorial Day weekend, and can while away the hours reading, a few blog recommendations: Bill Kauffman is a writer who defies categorization, which is only appropriate because people who defy categorization happens to be...
Scary Reunion
The Bush administration is moving aggressively from a policy aimed at neutralizing Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to one of regime change, according to a fascinating piece by the indispensable Laura Rozen, whose blog, "War and Piece," is one of my faves. David...
Doug Bandow Joins Antiwar.com
Our newest columnist, Doug Bandow, a trenchant critic of interventionism, was formerly a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He is the author of The Politics of Envy:...
Cheney Out After 2006 Elections? You Read It Here First …
Insight magazine, associated with the conservative Washington Times, is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney is going to "retire" "within a year." The reason? A "growing rift" between the OVP and the White House, the denouement of which will result in Cheney...
The Face of “Liberation” in Iraq
This is the face of Iraq's "liberation." This is the face of our glorious "victory." This is what it means to "export democracy."
Prelude to World War IV
I see my good friend Matt has a response to my latest comment on this blog concerning the Muhammed cartoon brouhaha, and I think it makes the main point of my original piece: that an atmosphere of hatred is being created in which it will seem not at all unusual or...
A Conspiracy of Dunces
Matt opines that Flemming Rose, the provocateur who commissioned the Muhammed-is-a-terrorist cartoons, can't be accused of double-standards because he's reprinting cartoons "satirizing" the Holocaust. Not so fast, Matt: wait until he decides to visit David Irving in...


