Russia: Backwards Hellhole Masquerades as a Civilization

At the risk of offending Russians, I feel I really must chime in on the subject of the quite notable suckiness of their country. I’ll just recount current events which have irked me — if I have to mention everything that has bugged me about the behavior of...

Saddam Hussein: For Better or Worse?

National Review (October 9, 2006, p. 4) is upset with Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the lead Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Not only has he said that the Iraq War he voted for was badly planned and badly fought, and that the Bush administration lied...

George Shultz’s War on Terror

In Monday’s edition of his biweekly column, “The Wartime Economist,” Antiwar.com’s David R. Henderson takes on George Shultz of the Committee on the Present Danger and the best case the War Party can make for continuing the failed “war on...