The Washington Post created an illustrated timeline of neoconservatism to go with a review of Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of The Neocons. Click here for the whole graphic. As always, observations and gripes are welcome in comments.

Tom Tomorrow on the charmed life of Bill Kristol:

I certainly wouldn't call him the worst candidate, but does anyone else in American politics today so perfectly embody the welfare-warfare ethos as Mike Huckabee? I mean, sure, some of the other candidates want to be the Führer, but Huckabee seems as if he's really...

Don't believe the spin about Giuliani writing Iowa off. Nick Bradley looks at campaign appearances vs. votes and finds that Giuliani came in a dismal sixth place, with only 4,000 votes for his 35 appearances. Antiwar and pro-civil liberties candidate Ron Paul, on the...

On Dec. 14, Ali Shafeya al-Moussawi, a correspondent for Alive in Baghdad, was killed. He had been working on a series of stories about a militia in Baghdad. See Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists for more.

So Sudan's president pardoned the teacher convicted of doing, well, nothing. She spent about a week in jail. Meanwhile…

Jonah Goldberg, whose still unreleased masterpiece Liberal Fascism now has its least moronic working subtitle yet, has posted what is already being hailed as the "Best. Update. Ever." Oh my, how will Ron Paul's acolytes ever respond to Evelyn Waugh's defense of (wait...

National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez explains Thomas Smith's false reporting from Lebanon: That’s why I wrote, in my first editor’s note on the subject, that we “should have provided readers with more context and caveats” – the context that Smith was...