In today’s article on Wesley Clark’s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times reveals some important information. Apparently, I’m not the only one wondering why Clark’s testimony came at this stage of the show trial, when the Kosovo...

If you had any doubt about which altar boobus americanus kneels before, doubt no longer. The Oh, Really? Factor renders unto Caesar, and renders, and renders some more. Bill O'Reilly on Cardinal Martino: [Y]ou can afford to feel compassion for Saddam, Cardinal,...

I do hope John Derbyshire did not contribute to The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature. Here, a bedtime story from Derb: Actually, my favorite story of victor's justice is the treatment given to the defeated Sultan Bayezid "the Thunderbolt" by...

Thanks to Matt for bringing the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector to our attention. It's true that looking down the preference hierarchy list creates absurdities, like my own Sharptonite Libertarianism. But in defense of the candidate selector I have...

Pro-Saddam demonstrations are on the rise and being put down by US troops. Meanwhile, the initial spurt of anti-Saddam demonstrations seems to have dissapated, with "Only small groups of Communist Party supporters were seen celebrating in the capital." Iraq's...

Apparently, winning the peace will take a while:Also Tuesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq and said U.S. troops might stay in Iraq for one or two years. 'About as far as we are looking is through the next couple of years,'...

Via Franklin Harris, the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector. My results certainly look odd, which suggests a BCS-like inscrutability in the formula, as well as a lack of exhaustive choices on some questions. Here's what I got: 1. Your ideal theoretical...

The always intriguing Paul Cantor on imperialism vs. trade in the Black Sea hood: What drove one empire after another to try to take over the Black Sea, despite the enormous expenditure of resources, human and material, that was always involved? Different motives were...

Asks this fellow, who thinks we're leftists. I just love political commentary straight from the medulla oblongata: Bush right. Antiwar not Bush. Antiwar left. Left bad. (He must have hated watching this!) If our esteemed detractor wanted commentary on Saddam's...

U.S. soldiers Monday used batons to break up a demonstration in Tikrit to protest against the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown. About 700 demonstrators gathered outside Tikrit University chanting pro-Saddam slogans. Soldiers shouted back "Saddam is in our...