I get a lot of letters, and read them all. Sometimes I get one so smart that I wan to run it on the site as an article. Of course, we have "Backtalk," our letters-to-the-editor column, but perhaps I'd better start excerpting the smartest, most interesting letters, as...
US troops vs. Iraqi Police
AP reports: BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. forces battled Iraqi police and gunmen Friday, killing six policemen, after an American raid captured a police lieutenant accused of leading an Iranian-backed militia cell, the military said. Seven gunmen also died in the fight, a rare...
Brendan O’Neill
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Ray McGovern
Faith Based Intelligence
Denis Collins
Libby Trial Juror #9 Speaks
Pauline Baker
“Failed” and “Near-failed” States
Al Qaeda — Stronger Than Ever
Al Qaeda is as strong as it was before 9/11, and the American "counter-attack," according to a new National Intelligence Estimate -- and so the "war on terrorism" we've been fighting all this time has been for nought. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to...
Christopher Hitchens, 1976: Saddam a “visionary”
The pro-war blowhard Christopher Hitchens is one of those former leftists-turned-neocons who changed his spots but not his soul, which is that of a power-worshipper. Back in the 1970s, when it looked like socialism might be the wave of the future, he was a Trotskyist...
Abu Ghraib: The Unknown Atrocities
Support our troops?:
Has His Judgment Improved Any?
Look whose praises Christopher Hitchens was singing 30 years ago. (Via Jonathan Schwarz. Dennis Perrin has further observations.)

