Collectivism sucks.

The first black female Secretary of State testified yesterday at her confirmation hearing that we now have an adjunct to the infamous "Axis of Evil" -- the Outposts of Tyranny: "To be sure, in our world there remain outposts of tyranny and America stands with...

Jonathan Chait, writing in the Los Angeles Times has an, er, interesting suggestion: "The Bush administration's foreign policy is centered around fighting a highly expensive counterinsurgency in Iraq. The administration's domestic policy is centered around driving...

Neocon bloggers are in such a tizzy over Sarah Boxer's New York Times piece, provocatively titled "Pro-American Iraqi Blog Provokes Intrigue and Vitriol," that they can barely contain themselves. We haven't seen such a roiling of the waters since a certain...

Uh oh. Do you think I have reason to worry?

Tim Dunlop has a good summary of the Rice confirmation hearings:At the confirmation hearings for Condoleeza Rice today, Senator Barbara Boxer did to Rice what the Bush administration has been doing to the country for the past four years....Read the restUPDATE: Arthur...

For once, I agree with Glenn Reynolds. Oh well, I guess there's a first time for everything....

Yulia Timoshenko, the Ukrainian oligarch-turned-revolutionary, says she fully expects to be made Prime Minister, now that her ally, Viktor Yushchenko, has won the presidency -- and she's already acting like she's in charge. Countermanding Yushchenko's order that the...

Is Newt peaking too early?

The wanton murder of Zaydun al-Samarrai, a 19-year-old Iraqi, by a group of U.S. soldiers who forced him to jump into the Tigris river was first revealed by Zeyad, a pro-American Iraqi blogger, who happens to be his cousin. Here is Zeyad's reaction to the slap on the...