A Compromise? The White House is said to be backing a bill making it a crime to harm a fetus while assaulting his mother . The NOW has made...

Chechnya: This article from the Washington Post treats the establishment of an armed, Islamist camp in Chechnya. The article is skewed by ...

A British Funeral in the Republic: Rest in peace, Lance Corporal Malone . Interested readers will find my poem for this fallen Irishman in ...

Wild Life: I'm thrilled to see that Aidan Hartley, correspondant to the London Spectator from Kenya , has a piece in the magazine this w...

Close, but not quite: This letter to the editor in the NY Times today is on IRA disarmament : Sir John Stevens's report that the British...

DPRK to test bomb? This blog, 21st March: "Earlier this week I was discussing with a close friend a theory I had that they might test ...

We have no money going down the mountain: The new "Parents: the Anti-Drug" page has this to say about marijuana use : According t...

I may win my Tikrit bet yet: From Babbin's Warblog today: In the flood of small news yesterday, one report caught my attention. A Fox r...

Two from the British Papers: Mark Steyn's piece on the UN in the London Spectator ; Theodore Dalrymple on the question of SARS in Britia...

Special Operations: Special Operations forces are not created equal. In fact, "special operations" is too loose a category to be ...

Kurtz: In The Corner today, Stanley Kurtz speaks at some length (and with additional links to previous articles) to the Santorum debate.

Mark Steyn on Bush: I'm getting around to Mark Steyn rather late this time around--some ten days late, in fact. His profile of Bush i...

The Founding: When I suggest that a federal system in Iraq which permits Sharia law would be "like what America looked like at the foun...

Making Peace: The NY Times today confirms Amir Taheri , arguing that the Iranian government is trying to destabilize the creation of a secul...

Gays and the Presbyterian Church: Gays don't get a lot of play on my blog, because of my disinterest in (and, let's be honest, dista...

Gays & Polygamy: Another Republican Senator is in trouble for his mouth. You'd think Republicans would just stop speaking in public...

Guns & Free Men: The Washington Post today prints this letter explaining why no one stopped a man from being beaten to death in Maryland...

Aussies Consider the DPRK: The Aussie press seems to have decided that the US is going to take out North Korea. The Sydney Morning Herald r...

My Favorite American Beer: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer is apparently enjoying a renaissance among the young and hip. It was my grandfather'...

Guns in Iraq: The Corner at NRO today has this post from Dave Kopel: Although British troops in Basra have been urging residents to volunta...