Why do they hate us?

Zeyad at Healing Iraq has an interesting post on the elections. I'm not sure how right he is in his assessment, but then it's probably impossible for anyone to gather much information with the chaotic conditions prevalent right now in Iraq. Some interesting...

Iraqi election restrictions:Driving on the streets will be restricted, Al-Nakib said, to elections supervisors and other officials.And, Walking in and around the polling places will be restricted, Al-Nakib said.Does anyone see a problem here, or am I missing something?

Saturday, between 4 and 6PM ET, Scott Horton will be interviewing former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Listen live on the Republic Broadcasting Network.

Okay, so no one liked the Bush inaugural speech, with prominent conservatives like Peggy Noonan and Bill Buckley making plain their dismay at its militant wackiness. And no wonder, just look at the wackos who had a hand in it, according to the Los Angeles Times: "As...

Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush's inaugural speech: "If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn't mean it … [and] that it was merely an inspirational...

William F. Buckley, Jr. didn't like the inaugural address either. "Confusing," and apparently "an improvisation," it was also ungrammatical: "Mr. Bush said that 'whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny.' You can simmer in resentment, but not in...

Our old buddy Richard Perle, otherwise known as the Prince of Darkness, appeared on Charlie Rose's program on Wednesday night. I tuned in just after the interview began. There is no transcript available for this show, as far as I know, so being the industrious fellow...

It may be time for Chalabi to head for Tehran again.  Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, will be arrested after the Eid al-Adha holidays, Iraq’s interim defence minister has said. Speaking to Aljazeera, minister Hazim Shaalan, said Chalabi...

Arthur Silber has the goods on W's "let's-conquer-the-world" speech, and also gives us a glimpse (but just a short one: we can't linger there too long) into the mind of David Horowitz, who has moved from being a left-wing "revolutionary" to being a "right-wing"...