Azerbaijan, of course. They're tilting dangerously toward monarchy, and that "poses a grave challenge to Western policy planning," says the Weekly Standard.

From the Justice Department's new website pushing the Patriot Act comes this list of supportive quotes from the likes of Daschle, Feinstein, Biden, Edwards, and Schumer (brief pause to spit after enunciating that last one). Note that all of the statements by these and...

Jeez, you spend a coupla days in the wilderness without a computer, and you miss all the excitement. I'm referring, of course, to the latest eruption of tensions between Antiwar.com and Reason. Justin vented a bit on Wednesday, Nick Gillespie responded, and Justin...

Brendan O'Neill writes:For all the claims about saboteurs bringing Iraq to its knees, it was the coalition's war that devastated Iraq. As the war was coming to an end in late April, the International Committee of the Red Cross claimed that: 'This country has...

Serbian news weekly "NIN," dated August 14, 2003, comments on Prime Minister Zivkovic's infamous troop offer: "Given that government representatives first denied the reports from America, then methodically spun the tone of Zivkovic's offer, and later hastily tried to...

From Rascia-Prizren Diocese Newsletter, August 14, 2003: "Yesterday’s crime against the Serb children of the village of Gorazdevac near Pec has deeply shaken all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and throughout Serbia and left behind it a numbing pain and an awful feeling...

An amazingly flippant take on postwar Iraq from National Review. Alleged humorist Bruce Stockler's plan to "solve Iraq's internal problems, get our troops out of harm's way, save us $14 billion a month, and unite the rest of the world, West and East, left and right"?...

David Klinghoffer, a frequent contributor to National Review, often uses selective readings from rabbinical tradition to push neocon doctrine. Here, he has 12th c thinker Moses Maimonides arguing for National Greatness: In an "optional" war, the king needs the...

As my column for tomorrow asks, "What if you lived there?" From the Independent: The abd al-Kerim family didn't have a chance. American soldiers opened fire on their car with no warning and at close quarters. They killed the father and three of the children, one of...

The Telegraph is now using the same line about Condi Rice. Compare their dateline to my last post. I'm not out to Jayson Blair anybody!