From Reuters: The White House on Tuesday ruled out three top aides as the source of a news leak identifying an undercover CIA officer whose husband was critical of Bush administration Iraq policy. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said he had talked to each of the...

If you're a Bush-supporter, that steady sucking sound you hear might be defecting libertarians. This article from The American Prospect should give Bushies the fear. It's gonna be hard to win the next election with an even smaller second-place showing than they...

Or just bored by the self-amused oxyconservative? Check out a real alternative to the establishment media: the Philip Dru show. It's on-air in Austin, but the website features audio interviews with the likes of Ivan Eland, Greg Palast, Alan Bock, and Jesse Walker--...

Every once in a while someone will point out some theme that I disagree with in an article posted on AWC & ask me why, if I disagree, I bother doing the work of editing the site's letters section, etc. But, in fact, it's not possible (never mind necessary or...

Lest anyone think that my take on patriotism in today's article is meant to dismiss the concept altogether, please read this great essay by Joseph Sobran. Relevant to folks right and left.

In, The Last Nuclear Moment, after telling of Moshe Dayan's suggestion that Israel use nukes to prevail in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Avner Cohen says: "Mrs. Meir's decision not to accept Mr. Dayan's pessimism not only avoided a nuclear catastrophe, it demonstrated to...

In case you need a little refresher on D.C. power-slut Lewis "Scooter" Libby, so prominently featured in the Valerie Plame scandal, here's a tasty treat from National Review, March 2001. Byron York reported the following: Libby, who said his law firms collected as...

I think there's a real contender in today's "Collateral Damage." See if you can spot it. Its very badness may make you laugh.

First, condolences to the families, Jewish and Arab, of those hurt or killed in yesterday's bombing. I'll include one sentence from an Agence France-Presse report that I didn't hear on the nightly news: The radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad claimed...

Romania is in big trouble for the way it treats its Gypsy population. Y'know, leaving them alone, letting them maintain their customs, instead of assimilating them at gunpoint. Now, a Gypsy wedding between a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy may threaten...