"Heroes are essential to the improvement of society" – and the 20thCentury had such a hero in Andrei Sakharov, famed Soviet physicist and much, much more – fighter for human rights and democracy in the midst of that lethally minded and cold-souled tyrant,...

Here. Judge it for yourself. "And to George W. Bush: You have asked us to "Bring it on." And, so have we, like never expected. Have you another challenge?" WMV downloadable file here. Please download rather than hotlink.

Yuschenko isn't interested in finding out who tried to murder him until after the election.Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko called for a serious investigation to determine how he was poisoned by dioxin, but urged it be conducted after the December 26...

I thought I'd do a report on Fallujah Reconstruction: American warplanes pounded Fallujah with missiles Sunday as insurgents fought running battles with coalition forces in the volatile western Iraqi city. The U.S. military said two troops died in separate...

Via the indispensable Yankeedoodle at Iraq Today, we find this interesting article by Phil Carter in the NY Times. Phil argues that the Great Armor Crisis is due to the US military fighting a conflict in which there are no front lines with equipment designed for...

I read the following passage in David D. Friedman's Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (published in '97): In the previous discussion, we were considering a pure depletable resource -- a resource whose price was entirely determined by its limited supply....

Marwan Barghouti has released a set of demands for withdrawing from the Palestinian election. See them here. A couple of them are conditions on Israel, so it looks like Marwan will be running in the election.

More than you ever wanted to know about Bernie Kerik, from Doug Ireland. Link via Jesse Walker at Hit and Run Kevin Drum gets snarky: But wait — that's not the funny part. Newsweek's Mark Hosenball reports today that Kerik actually had more serious problems: Kerik,...

(see 10 for introduction) local to 5 express to 4.5 In his Capital Times column Thursday, John Nichols offered Democrats advice, good advice, but not Advance U.S. -- Not Israel's -- Interests, so the streak continues. He has yet to use "Israel" or "Palestine" this...

zeynep at Under the Same Sun is in Venezuela looking for good news, but Jonathan Schwartz has the keys to the blog. As zeynep says, Johnathan "also writes about the scary stuff but he's funny." Read Jonathan on the giraffe in the kitchen.