It is reported that a US marine, who was captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence. Here's a video of the shooting. Here's an eyewitness account by the...

Something I left out of today's column: in trying to back up his assertion that Syria is to blame for the assassination of Lebanese politician-businessman Rafik Hariri, Michael Young cites one Walid Jumblatt, the head of the Progressive Socialist Party. But who is...

How absurd is it for a foreign country to send troops to another foreign country and then import other foreign troops in to guard them? And when one foreign country decides to pull its troops out of the invaded country the remaining foreign country's troops have to...

Juan Cole has a long post up in which he analyzes the somewhat sketchy information available about the process of choosing a candidate for PM of the Iraqi Assembly. Rather surprisingly, Ahmed Chalabi is still announcing to anyone who will listen that he has the votes...

According to a report from the Pentagon's testing and evaluation office, the Defense Department wants to "target an adversary's space capability by using a variety of permanent and/or reversible means to achieve five possible effects: deception, disruption, denial,...

I know Reason magazine gets its fair share of abuse around here, but this gem from Tim Cavanaugh is my early frontrunner for comment of the year:I think it says more about how contemporary liberals view themselves than about our "debased political terminology" that...

After this spittle-flecked screed (and it keeps going) from a commenter at Liberty & Power, resident AWC-basher Steven Horwitz adds the following Deep Thought:As someone who thinks ALL foreign aid should disappear, including, of course, aid to Israel, I still believe...

I think Jonathan Schwarz of A Tiny Revolution has figured out the answer to The Great Perfume Atomizer Mystery.

I'm mad at Hunter S. Thompson. I'm mad at the way he lived his life, whacked out of his gourd, so to speak, on any chemical you can think of, and how he met his death, apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Either way, it was a waste. After becoming a...

Radley Balko, one of the "credentialed bloggers" at CPAC (CPAC stands for Bush Cult-now you know) writes in response to Yglesias and Atrios expressing "alarm" over a speech given by Rep. Chris Cox. Cox's remarks seem to indicate that he suffers under the Fox Delusion...