Forget the angle everyone else is taking. Who is Golan Cipel?

George Paine at Warblogging finds a good reason to long for the days of Victory Gardens and Private Ryan:An in-depth study recently released into the public domain shows that in World War II — this nation's "good war" or "best war" — only about 15% of American combat...

Be sure to check out two great exclusives on Antiwar.com this weekend by first-time contributors Scott Sutton and Michael Uhl.

The loudest applause during Wesley Clark's speech last night came at the end of this:Under John Kerry we will attack and destroy the terrorist threats to America. He'll join the pantheon of great wartime Democrats. Great Democrats like Woodrow Wilson, who led us to...

John Kerry: "I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as president." You defended this country from what? Those Vietnamese peasants who were pillaging Boston?

An echo, not a choice:We will double our Special Forces, and invest in the new equipment and technologies so that our military remains the best equipped and best trained in the world. This will make our military stronger so we're able to defeat every enemy in this new...

Could David Duke have picked a better prime-time speaker for tonight's Democratic convention than Al Sharpton? The only thing worse than Sharpton's barking screed – which Doris Kearns Goodwin, in a rare moment of lucidity, compared to nails on a chalkboard – was the...

Bombings, clashes kill over 120 in Iraq today – and not a word yet (3:50 CST) from Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Jarvis, Volokh, Tim Blair, Roger L. Simon, or Andrew Sullivan, all of whom have found time today to post mind-numbing trivia. Come on guys, I need some positive...

Everyone hates at least one of them, and this is why: Michael Moore vs. Bill O'Reilly. (Be sure to read the conditions Moore stipulated for the interview at the beginning of the article – i.e., that it oughta be an honest record of what took place.) My favorite...

Sweet merciful God, is it over yet? Tonight was pure fluff from start to finish. Ted Kennedy tried to beat a few more flecks of pixie dust from Camelot's rugs. Howard Dean played the good party hack. Barack Obama said little of any interest, but he benefitted from...