Recent Bombings: The bombings in Saudi Arabia demonstrate the degree of freedom of movement al Qaeda enjoys in that, their home, country. A...

A shocking admission: From the C.I.A. 's Center for Intelligence Studies. This comes as part of a long article called "The Intelli...

Therefore your end is on you, is on you and your kings : Ere the sad gods that made your gods Saw their sad sunrise pass, The White Horse ...

Denuclearization on the Subcontinent: This is an astonishing story. Pakistan has offered to surrender its nuclear arms if India will do th...

Mugabe watch: Meeting with opposition leaders scheduled in Zimbabwe, apparently to work out plans for the power transfer.

Mugabe to step down? An expanded investigation into the rumors, from the Economist .

Poetry / The Lost Castle of Glyndwr: From the Medieval Welsh Poem Goddodin : Gododin gomynnaf oth blegyt. yg gwyd cant en aryal en emwyt. ...

I'm now worried about those tourists: InstaPundit , sage of Knoxville, has been concerned for some time about the disappearances of (now...

Corruption in Forsyth County: Alleged corruption, anyway. I've recently been introduced to this site on the subject of "Local Orga...

Poetry: Poetry is dead , writes Bruce Wexler in Newsweek. Why? Anyone can write a bad poem. To appreciate a good one, though, takes knowled...

High Roller: Bill Bennet, author of multiple books with titles like The Book of Virtues , turns out to be a high stakes gambler . Good for ...

Patriotism Watch: The link off WashingtonPost.com today reads: "Ellen Goodman: America's Gift to the World." Now, that cou...

More Bad Thinking: Opening up a CIA domestic intel service . The FBI and the CIA are separate entities not by accident, but for cause. The...

Urrah! Hutchison Whampoa is out of the bid to buy Global Crossing telecommunications. GC ran a number of sensitive US Federal programs. H...

A little life left in it: I've recently held that racism was effectively dead in Georgia. Apparently there are still a few holdouts . ...

The Lost Castle of Glyndwr: Readers of the previous article know that this was described in heroic verse by the poet Iolo Goch. I have look...

Archaeology: Two more big discoveries announced this week. In Wales, archaeologists have discovered the lost castle of Glyndwr . And in Eg...

Arts & Sciences: In response to my contention that psychology is not a science (see Monday's log), I've been asked to read Our I...

May Day: Although the Washington Post lists the story as "World Marks May Day," it's really mostly a few crowds of communists...

More Bad Thinking: Textbooks are heavily censored--we wouldn't want to teach the wrong lessons, right? Even Plato talked about that in ...