An ambassador – his name happens to be Timothy Carney – an Iraqi, and a penguin walk into a bar. The bartender asks how the Iraqi will ever possibly pay for his drink. The ambassador replies: "The point to make there is that Iraq is basically a rich country; that...

Nazi propaganda poster, 1944. Hey, it's no more ridiculous than the typical wingnut's vision of a Sunni-Shia-Papist-Iran-Saddam-al Qaeda-Jacques Chirac-Michael Moore-Pat Buchanan-Dixie Chicks-Kim Jong Il-Antiwar.com axis of evil. Via Jesse Walker.

Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East

Detain Alberto Gonzales!: America’s attorney general is a criminal. Will he lose his power?

Today's spotlight viewpoint is by George Soros, and I think it's very good, for the most part. But it inspires Jonathan Schwarz to fact-check Slick Willie.

In my review of Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism I mentioned the Cato Institute's online symposium, which utilizes the book as a take-off point for a discussion about the libertarian movement in general, and I note here the posting of Virginia Postrel's...

Today Daniel Ellsberg, Justin Raimondo, Rabbi Michael Lerner and many others spoke at the Stop Funding the War rally outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. MP3 audio here. (89:54) (Justin's part is at 62:46)

Iron Lady Against the Machine: She’s seen ’em all and these are the worst.

Barack, Hillary, and John Edwards: The Contest for Most Loyal to AIPAC

A slick White House flack clarifies the war's progress on CNN: "We're still at the input stage."