Ouch! I'm glad to see what's-his-name Matthew Yglesias is back in form after the transition to his new home on The Atlantic's blog -- and remind me never to get on his bad side.

Clearly, there are too many candidates to give all of the different points of view a fair hearing. What to do? I suggest two podiums. Behind podium one, Ron Paul; behind podium two, the other nine, in an orderly, grade-school water-fountain line. After each question...

From the latest issue of The American Conservative, a review by Peter Hitchens (the Good Hitchens) of John O'Sullivan's The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World: "I might add that Poland, though freed from the iron manacles of...

Ex-Head of CIA’s Osama Unit says Ron Paul “exactly correct”

From the May 12-18 Economist: "Soldiers in Iraq: Contaminated": Of the 1,767 troops questioned by the Pentagon's mental-health advisory team last September... less than half (47% of soldiers and 38% of marines) felt that non-combatants should be treated with dignity...

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Iran War Off For Now: But Dick Cheney ain’t gone yet

I hate to give away the introduction to my next article, but this can't wait. –Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to Sam Tannenhaus Vanity Fair, May 9th, 2003: "There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one...

Not content with attacking him for what he actually said or did, the War Party is now making up stories. The Hotline, the daily blog of the National Journal, runs the following item: Republicans have a message for Ron Paul: don't mess with us. Since Tuesday's debate,...

Ron Paul is everywhere — Here he is on CNN, with Wolf Blitzer, who can always be counted on to give out the “conventional wisdom” — and is put to rights by Ron. Blitzer blithers “He [Giuliani] really had some supporters in that auditorium. Are you ready to...