Mercenaries for Peace: This is an excellent idea . Mercenary peacekeepers: I like it.

Pay in Iraq: Students of history will recall that one of the early troubles for the American republic was occasioned by the nonpayment of ve...

Mark Steyn: "Damn, Mark," I keep saying as I read his stuff. If there is a more insightful man than Mark Steyn writing today, I ...

Straight talk on WMD and Iraq: Here it is, courtesy of the good lads at the Star Tribune : Does the failure to find WMD mean we were handed ...

Revolutionary Ideal: Democracy according to the classical liberal tradition is the last true revolutionary ideology in the world. It is al...

PBR Watch: My grandfather's beer , at $4 a bottle.

Grim Loses A Bet: Eric Robert Rudolph , neither dead nor in Boliva. Win some, lose some.

The Corner: Wow--Rich Lowry over at National Review Online published an email from me in The Corner . He'd asked for letters about the ...

"Task Force Viking": Apparently led by US Special Forces, Task Force Viking uncovered that mobile bio-lab in Iraq. More to the po...

Chechnya: Some thoughts and rumors about the recent bombings, from the Moscow Times .

Cool if True File: An alleged plot between the United States and Iran to limit Hezbollah terrorism.

Looting and Violence in Iraq: Shoot to kill looters? That was last Wednesday's story, one which sadly proved not to be true. It is nec...

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...