Jefferson on the Decalogue: A friend I hold in much esteem pointed out to me today that Jefferson himself had spoken to the issue currently ...

For my NASCAR-fan readers: Dave Shifflet on Jesse Jackson's attempts to shakedown NASCAR . Now, I think this business is unfair to NASC...

I was wrong: It's always nice when a blogger admits a mistake, right? Well, I wrote a piece on boneheads in Congress a few days ago th...

Guerrillas: From Lebanon's Daily Star , a list by a member of the US Naval War College that outlines guerrilla groups in Iraq with anal...

Afghanistan Update: Winds of Change has the most encouraging story I've seen from Afghanistan in a while. It shows that CENTCOM is emp...

Without Comment: This is from the Coalition Provisional Authority/Iraq's website, containing advice on contacting the CPA: If you would...

Frontier Justice: If we could just do this in Afghanistan, preferably with mixed US/Afghan companies: Throughout Iraq, as the nation cracks...

My Answer: I asked in the piece on Afghanistan today what other plans were out there. Well, here is the answer : shift intelligence and sp...

It just doesn't work: The Washington Post points to rapidly increasing violent crime in D.C. as a reason to prevent efforts to reduce ...

US Marines V. Pirates of Niger Delta Yet another African deployment looms for the US Marines. This time it is all about oil, some 300,000 ...

A Second Raid: Just hours after the raid mentioned in the last item, a second attack involving hundreds of Taliban hit another police stati...

Today in Afghanistan: The Guardian has an AP report on a major attack in Afghanistan: Insurgents attacked a police headquarters in southeas...

New Governor in Southern Afghanistan: 'Kandahar Shuffle' sounds like a particularly exotic dance. In what must be the best news fr...

The Heroic Life: Two articles today on masculinity and the heroic life. This is of course one of the prime reasons for the existence of thi...

Ahem: Remember that post about military pay? Mr. Bush spoke yesterday at Miramar Marine Corps Base to thank the troops just back from Iraq....

Napping: A lot of readers may not know that I am married, but I have a beautiful wife and a fine, strong son who is now a bit more than a ye...

Grrr... The Corner has this story on how the cuts in military pay, for our soldiers on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan, are coupled with i...

Update on Afghan Warlord: The Voice of America has a longer story, with pics.

Counterinsurgency: Here's a good article from the archives at Winds of Change , which I missed the first time around. It's a progra...

Diamonds, Made to Order: Blog Junky has a link to an interesting story out of Wired , which argues that we will soon be able to mass-produc...