The Advocate: I am now going to occupy a position that is, ironically in this case, called the Devil's Advocate . I'm doing this in...

Zabul: On the day when Jihad Unspun first announced that the Taliban had recaptured Zabul province, I speculated : What does this mean for t...

Sweet and Proper: A sign from outside a Southern military base . This demonstrates two things that I think are worth demonstrating: first ...

Neoconservatism: This is a topic we've all heard about lately. But what is the test for whether someone is or isn't a neocon? Well...

Afghan war: There continue to be interesting reports from southeastern Afghanistan. One of them, at least, is almost certainly false: that...

State Dept. Whistles Past Graveyard: The Kansas City Star has a report from the talks on the DPRK's weapons program, entitled "US ...

Scoop! James Taranto has this today: Our Friends the Saudis In a report on Gerald Posner's new book, "Why America Slept," Ti...

More on Zabul: Zabul must be the most interesting place on Earth just now. Some of this is probably true, but it's getting very hard to...

Zabul: Pro-al-Qaeda website Jihad Unspun has a report from Zabul province. JUS is a very suspicious source, and indeed, mostly they report...

Ledeen: Michael Ledeen writes in today's NRO about the Najaf bombing. He agrees with the CNN report that put Mugniyah in Iraq, which ...

From Yemen? Via InstaPundit , two car-bomb attacks have been prevented by Iraqi police . Details are sparse, but there is one very interest...

...and a Georgia Overdrive: Some poetry in honor of Labor Day : I.C.C. is a-checking on down the line. Well, I'm a little overweight ...

The Taliban Regroup: The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the regrouping of the Taliban in Pakistan . Last week more than eighty were kill...

Bush Lied, Soldiers Died: This line has been around for a while, and I find that it seriously makes me angry. I don't like to talk abou...

House Cleaning: This is what InstaPundit is calling a bombshell, from TIME magazine . It is the story of how Zubaydah, captured al-Qaeda s...

The General Militia: It's always good to see a genuine, Classical Liberal idea at work in US policy. This time the rumors are from Cana...

Smart, but Imaginative? An article in the Atlantic Monthly about G.W. Bush. It holds that he's "focused, quick to make decisions, ...

Capitalism: Came across a blog I haven't read before. I was drawn by the name, "Arms and the Man," which is both a tradition...

"Is this organic?" "Probably not." An article on Scottish food. If you haven't had haggis, you ought; if you haven...

Al Qaeda: Well, our old friends turn up in the oddest places. I began wondering if al Qaeda was behind the Najaf bombing last night, after ...