From the AP:BERLIN - The U.N.'s lead investigator in the inquiry into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister said Wednesday he believes a spate of recent killings in the country are linked. "These are not isolated attacks," Detlev Mehlis told reporters...
They'll save us from the tyranny of an unrestrained executive. Won't they?
Michael Young on the assassination of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni in today's Reason online:There was never any doubt that Syria was behind his murder. There are those who will, out of sheer malice, demand that Bashar Assad's fingerprints be lifted from the detonation...
Helena Cobban offers and invites suggestions for the antiwar movement.
Tim Cavanaugh splashes some context on the "it had to be Syria" narrative of the recent murder of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni:[Y]ou can get a sense of what made him a polarizing figure in his responses to my followup question: Nobody knows how many Shi'ites there are in...
If you've gotten the same mass-forwarded e-mail as Michael Brendan Dougherty's friend, your reply-to-all begins here.
Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy died yesterday at the age of 89. Reactions here. Last June, Patrick Buchanan asked, "Who is the Eugene McCarthy of this generation?" In a June 2004 interview with Salon.com, McCarthy explained his decision to challenge LBJ on an...
Could this acrostic in a Pakistani textbook be the work of a certain internationally recognized Surrealist poet?
Oh my, some "repulsive characters" from a "coven of fringe libertarians" are "crucifying" Conrad Black. Well, if voicing a little schadenfreude as one of the biggest statists of our time is harassed by the state amounts to crucifixion, then call me Pilate. As an act...
Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and upchucks on his own reflection:I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged...
