Leave it to Clarice to tell a tale of exactly who they are. Her colorful and precise description is the best I've read so far. Let them prance in purple, pirouette in golden spins. More

The ability of wealthy individuals like Al Gore to purchase what amounts to rights to pollute by buying carbon credits is a repulsive moral dodge, demanding us to consider useful analogies. More

Why declare preventive war on the climate? Global warming hasn't attacked anyone. More

The ADL calls our attention the a reading list provided by Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, replete with anti-Semitic works. Finding a cozy place among them is ex-president Jimmy Carter's tome, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. More

Just in case there are any readers who read the Investor's Business Daily editoral page every day, I am providing a link the op-ed I wrote for IBD More

According to the Jerusalem Post, A gang of serial rapists has been prowling the North, raping Jewish women as revenge for IDF actions in the West Bank More

One of the most bizarre near-murder incidents in memory has ended with no jail time for the mentally impaired assailant, and none for her accomplice, who has shown no remorse, and who broke several laws. More

Maybe you thought "hybrid limousine" was a joke? More

I'd like to donate part of my own carbon credit To one of the Gore households, where I'll bet it Could light a guest room for one whole day, That's all I can offer because I may More

One of the defining characteristics of ethnic bigotry is the application of different standards to different groups. The most common examples these days relate to Israel. More

The American labor movement has filed a complaint with the UN over the outrages committed against a powerless group by a presumably evil group of oppressors: America's research universities. More

The real inconvenient truth is that Gore, like the celebrity eco-warriors is a hypocrite. I have a solution to their problem. More

Once again, I failed to see any mention at the Academy Awards of Theo Van Gogh, a truly brave film maker More

Peanut farmer and ex president Jimmy Carter is absolutely correct, there is apartheid in the Middle East. More

When Google paid more than a billion dollars for YouTube, I was rather surprised. While it is an established brand name, YouTube enjoys weak barriers to entry for competitors More

On this day in 1860 (a year later in the political cycle than he would have today), Abraham Lincoln launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. More

MEMRI points today to plans for coordinated Islamist hack attacks on websites the enemies of Allah --- which might include most the web. More

Thanks to the sharp pixels at Mudville Gazette, I've learned a great new word today: "astroturfing." More

Yesterday, Rachel Neuwirth informed AT readers about the return of the ancient blood libel against Jews, in the form of a book by (of all people) a professor at Israel's Bar Ilan University. More

Nat Hentoff writes a stunning op-ed in the Washington Times about the persecution of librarians in Cuba, and the book burning that is engaged in by the totalitarian communist dictator, Fidel Castro. More

One of the most striking features of our age -- and one of the most disturbing -- is that we argue before we understand. And of all the subjects over which we argue, none is more important to our survival than the war. More

MarketWatch reports that yet another prestigious securities firm, Lehman Brothers, has downgraded the stock of the New York Times Company More

John Gerome of the Associated Press reports on an entrepreneur who found a second career in an industry that had been relegated to the junk heap: pressing vinyl records. More

A few days ago someone drove a dump truck loaded with a bomb into Habbinniyah and exploded it near the town's police station, killing thirty-four people and injuring about sixty, most of them women and children. More

Kate O'Beirne put the subject of Mitt Romney's Mormon polygamist heritage into clear perspective in an August blog entry at National Review Online. More

Now here's a story which reeks of psyops: "Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf would be willing to allow the Israel Air force to enter their airspace in order to reach Iran in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities" More

The AP searches the Romney family tree to breathlessly reports his great- grandfather was a polygamist More

Is the correlation of forces swinging in our favor in Iraq? More

The John Kerry Heinz couple are now authors of a new book on... the environment. More

Usually, if something doesn't happen it is not news. More

The UK Daily Mail reports that police in the UK are investigating forced conversions to Islam through intimidation and providing protection to young women who were physically threatened in order to obtain their conversions. More

This past week some Democrats have been taking about dictating the conduct of the war in Iraq to the President. More

Charles Rust-Tierney,the former President of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU ,is arrested for possession of very graphic and disturbing child pornography. More

A learned professor from Iran tells us how tricky Jews like Walt Disney (a Congregationalist) were More

Jimmy Carter continued his speaking tour to stimulate discussion and debate about Israel by once again refusing to discuss or debate his views with an opponent More

Here is the article Rush has discussed today. More

The Republican National Committee was established on this day in 1856 to coordinate nationwide opposition to the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats. More

Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, pens an op-ed in the New York Post endorsing the use of nuclear power, an enemy that the greenies fought tooth and nail for decades. More

This year the federal budge deficit will be 1.6 percent of the economy - a level lower than in 18 of the past 25 years More

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made and still carries on her website a breathtakingly untrue charge against President Bush More

Ummah News Links offers the information that, "The government of Azerbaijan has invited Israel to begin negotiations on the supply of natural gas. " More

China's autocrats abhor the free flow of information that is possible on the internet. More

Early in the Fitzgerald case I wrote, "The Wilson Gambit was a stealth operation undertaken outside normal procedures and supervision, used as a political weapon...." It now looks like I was right. More

What we know of the planning of 9/11 is largely derived from the CIA interviews of two captured plotters. The 9/11 Commission was not allowed to interview them or their CIA interrogators More

The New York Times mounts its editorial high horse to denounce the federal appeals court decision that Gitmo detainees do not have a right to be heard in court. More

Ralph Peters pens an insight-rich column for the New York Post on the spectacular opportunity handed to us by Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr's fleeing of Iraq. More

In response to the announced intention of Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan to lead a Washington protest originating at the Vietnam Memorial, the group Gathering of Eagles was formed. More

We have in the past noted that The Economist magazine has a typically European elitist view toward America (particularly in its ridicule of Christians). More

Vanity Fair recently brought out its Hollywood issue for 2007. Among the many articles is one about the famous 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. One of Elia Kazan's greatest films, it deals with the swift rise and swifter decline in the public eye of one Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, played by... More

Brussels Journal carries a long and interesting essay on the role of feminism as an enabler of the oppression of women More

All you frequent (and not so frequent) flyers into Minneapolis-St Paul Airport no longer have to worry about getting a cab if you're carrying a closed package of liquor or guided by a seeing eye dog. More

On Monday, the legacy media crossed a critical line. More

Roman Herzog is a formidable figure in Germany's government and politics. He once supported the EU project, but now strongly and openly opposing the EU bureaucracy More

I find the official American reaction to Iran's president's "offer" rather less than adequate. More

Democracies can win fierce battles against totalitarian killers, and still lose on the domestic front --- via the information war. More

Pope Benedict XVI appears to be modifying his approach to the Muslim world, according to an analysis appearing the publication Our Sunday Visitor More

The New York Sun reports a blue ribbon study which shows that Hugo Chavez, who has assumed dictatorial powers in Venezuela, rigged both his election "landslides." More

John Edwards' campaign is strongly denying the report we cited yesterday that he saw a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as a major threat to world peace. More

Why did Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor in the Libby Trial, attack President Bush in his summation yesterday? More

For some time now I have been an admirer of the insightful editorials published by Investor's Business Daily. More

Breaking news from Israel that an attempted suicide bombing was aborted by the bomber himself, with the backpack containing the bomb discarded in a dumpster. More

The European Union Commission has proposed legislation to include commercial aviation in its carbon trading scheme. Under such regulations airlines flying out of the EU would have to "buy" emissions rights More

Jonathan Strong asks an amusing yet serious question: "Did Hillary Kill Feminism?" More

National Review's HillarySpot catches John Edwards spouting the popular European view that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace: More

A positive post yesterday by Mohammed at Iraq the Model on conditions in Baghdad: More

LaShawn Barber has a must-read post on a Duke rape case that is not getting very much press attention yet. More

James Morris sounds like someone dreamed up by desperate Hollywood writers, looking to find a premise for a new television series. More

The big news of last week was of course the House passing a resolution disapproving of the President's Iraq "surge" plan. But the actual text has seldom been published More

A forgotten hero of the modern-day civil rights movement, Herbert Brownell, was born on this day in 1904. More

Barack Obama has been alleged to have taken credit for others' work in getting asbestos removed from a Chicago housing project. More

From the BBC in Paris comes the following: "Nosebleed triggers embassy alert" at the Canadian consulate More

Edward Alexander writes in the New York Post of "Leftist Jews' Hateful Obsession", which makes an excellent companion piece to Rachel Neuwirth's article published here two days ago. More

After the death of the "Turkmanbashi" (meaning leader of all the Turkmen) Saparmurat Niyazov, it seems that the nation of Turkmenistan, one of the former Soviet Republics, is finally joining the modern ages. More

The ever-alert Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs catches another computer photo fraud. More

The mall massacre in Salt Lake City, Utah, by a Bosnian Muslim killed in the attack, is another reminder that solo practitioners of jihad are a threat anywhere, anytime. More

The father of one of the Kilo company members, whom no MSM outlet would listen to, tells his story about the Haditha Marines. More

Truly breathtaking! In an op-ed today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times praises Jimmy Carter. The very same New York Times columnist who defended University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian More

The peaceful, natural death at age 96 of Maurice Papon, the highest-ranking Frenchman to be convicted for a role in the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, considered to be a "symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis", is another reminder of the Vichy smell Ed Lasky noted yesterday. More

There will be the usual sellout crowd at Assembly Hall in Urbana, Il. this coming Wednesday night. But this game will also mark the last dance for Chief Illiniwek More

Greg Myre of the New York Times writes of Gaza today ("Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow"). More

What do you say about a country that sells 800 50-caliber state-of-the-art sniper rifles to Iran, and then acts surprised when those rifles magically end up killing American Soldiers next door in Iraq? More

A group of 260 Britons of Somali origin has submitted a letter to the chairman of the BBC's board of governors, charging that the BBC's Somali service has become a "tool of propaganda" of the beseiged Islamist regime in Somalia. More

Yesterday, listening to the radio while driving, I learned that (once again) I had missed the Dear Leader's birthday, the major event of the year in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. More

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." So wrote Abraham Lincoln. More

Haaretz reports, "French President Jacque Chirac has announced his support for lessening pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program" More

Our contributor Rachel Neuwirth, whose article "Beyond Self-hating" appears today, has received a formal written apology and an unspecified cash settlement from Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of Hillel at UCLA More

Austria gave us Hitler... so why not sell guns to Iran? More

"We are at a tipping point. We must act, and act swiftly ... Such action requires international cooperation. This was Al Gore on February 3rd More

A powerful group of businessmen and former politicians have embarked on a project to fight school vouchers in the state of Texas. More

The Los Angeles Times runs a column today by Andrew Cockburn, conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite. More

Wednesday, President Bush led off his press conference with a comment which, to my ear, was very significant More

The New York Times headline on the opening of the Madrid Terror Trial is almost comic: "Hopes for Healing as Spain's Terror Triral Begins" More

Just when you thought conspiracy theories couldn't get any weirder, along comes one that reaches new comic heights. Except, of course, that there are people who take the lunacy very seriously. More

According to this week's Science magazine, the ocean's ability to absorb carbon may be far greater than previously estimated. That means that atmospheric CO2 gets eliminated perhaps twice as much as global warming alarmists thought More

A reader who requests anonymity writes from Iraq. More

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, about life in Mayan times, generated a torrent of criticism for alleged racism, mainly because it depicted the brutality of human sacrifice as practiced by that civilization. More

Stephen Spruiell of National Review's Media Blog points out some of the sworn testimony in the Libby Trail which is contradicted by other sworn testimony. More

"Scientific consensus!" chants the mainstream media in America when it comes to global warming. Not so long ago, that would have been the end of the story for nearly everyone. More

The New York Times publishes an article today on the bloggers covering the Libby Trial, mentioning AT. More

The New York Times is trying to discrdit the Bush administration and seriously misleading readers. Again. More

If an Army Ranger, a veteran of the Iraq war, was stabbed in his own front yard by an illegal alien, don't you think that that story would garner some press coverage? More

The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can't see a smoking gun when it is right in front of him. More

My British friend Peter Glover has established a new website globalwarminghysteria.com. The name pretty much says it all. More

Most (not all) of the car bombs have been detonated in Baghdad. It's time to get a perspective on that. More

The CBC is touting a new poll of Canadian Muslims as good news. The Strong Conservative is not so sure. More

First Austrian-made guns that are unique and rare and that were recently shipped to Iran for "anti-drug" efforts find their way to Iraqi "insurgents". Then Iranian officials are captured within Iraq and are alleged to have been aiding violence More

Our contributor Alamgir Hussain, who grew up Muslim, has written about his journey from a Jew-hater to a lover of Jews. More

New York City is to open an Arabic public school. But of course it wants it to be "diverse." More

Tim Russert has got some explainng to do. At the close of the Libby Trial on Tuesday, the defense indicated it wanted to recall Russert to the stand to impeach a statement of his. More

Geert Wilders has no doubt been denounced already as an "Islamophobe", and I would suspect he is now or will soon be under death threats. More

Mayor Bloomberg is looking for office space for the United Nations. Here's an idea: More

There was a very good interview of President Bush on C-SPAN on Sunday, February 11, 2007 More

Covering the latest Muslim-inspired clashes in Jerusalem, the MSM, relying on their skimpy religious/historical knowledge plus Muslim propaganda, have ranked the importance of the area's sites to the respective religions More

The New York Times reports that "skeptics" doubt US evidence on Iran's Actions in Iraq. So who is one of these "experts" (a word the Times uses) worth citing? More

Some conservatives have been quick to criticize Mitt Romney for his past comments regarding homosexuals and abortion in particular, and have pointed out that Romney has changed his stand More

The Associated Press reports today that "Republican Mitt Romney's choice of a museum honoring auto pioneer Henry Ford as the site of his presidential announcement was strongly criticized Monday by Jewish Democrats, who noted Ford's history of anti-Semitism." More

Soviet refusenik Nathan Sharansky has called for a worldwide mobilization of Jews and non-Jews to work against the new campaign to erase the State of Israel. That new campaign of liquidation comes from the international Left and Iran. More

CBS is being used to broadcast false information to the public. Mr. Bob Schieffer claimed on Sunday's program "Face the Nation" that Republicans "cut off debate" on Iraq Senate resolutions. More

Rick Moran, who never lets political correctness of any sort interfere with his thinking, raises the very touchy question of assassination and Barack Obama's candidacy. More

The new Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is already making waves. The Boston Globe reports that he wants limit employers' ability to check the criminal backgrounds of potential employees More

I cut and I paste till I'm blue in the face, As Chamberlain mimes repeat his mistakes. More

Hugo Chavez may be able to received dictatorial powers from Venezuela's legislature, but he still can't repeal the law of supply and demand. More

A pair of recent news items about France and its language once again demonstrate the ridiculous lengths to which that nation will go in fighting a rearguard Anglophobic campaign. More

How bad are the liberal media in their relentless propagandizing? Check out the way halos magizally appear around the heads of the annointed. More

The anonymous author who uses the pen name Fedora has done a masterful job of summing up the Plame case More

Clarice Feldman appeared on Macranger's internet radio program. A webcast can be heard here. More

A favorite trope of the Left is to denounce greed. At least in others. More

A small broadcast television station, KFTY, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, California, has fired its entire news staff and is going to rely on viewer-submitted material for news. More

The bloggers conference call with Benjamin Netanyahu we covered earlier is now available as a podcast at the One Jerusalem website. More

While political partisanship is the norm, rather than the exception, in Washington D.C., leaders from both sides of the aisle have historically come together for the sake of unity and for the good of the nation during a time of war or crisis More

The unbearable absurdity of the Mccain-Feingold Campaign Reform law is on display More

Lance Dutson , one of the bloggers covering the trial for media bloggers association, has written a magnificent piece on the Russert/Mitchell aspect of the Libby Trial. I urge you to read it all. More

The prosecution has rested in the Libby Trial, and like a fish left out in warm weather, a strange and unpleasant odor is becoming more and more apparent as the sun shines on case. More

Rather than comment directly on Obama's announcement this morning, I will refer readers to the coverage at Sweetness & Light, which is doing a superb job of comparing the airy rhetoric of today with previous statements. More

This morning (Saturday, February 10, 2007), General David Petraeus acceded to the command of the coalition forces in Iraq - MultiNational Force - Iraq (MNF-I). More

Elie Wiesel was attacked in an elevator in San Francisco by a Holocaust denier who has apparently been stalking him More

"With our soul, with our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for Al-Aqsa," the Palestinian crowd shouted yesterday, according to the press report, "The soldiers of Satan want to turn Al-Aqsa into a synagogue." More

So much for the vaunted fact checking of the ancien presse: More

Bibi Netanyahu, the former Israeli Prime Minister, held a bloggers conference call yesterday in which I participated. More

Hugh Hewitt notes that the Democrats in Congress are serving notice to all our intelligence sources in Iraq that their identities will not be protected. More

The oh so liberal columnist Ellen Goodman has now officially joined ranks with Iran's Ahmadenjihad by publicly stating global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers More

Watching the media reports on the Administration's handling of pre war intelligence is like having a conversation with a seriously disturbed person for whom no contrary evidence is sufficent to get through the closed loop fog of his delusions. More

Tavis Smiley is slated to host two presidential candidate forums on PBS. Are we to take seriously the prospect of an even-handed examination of both Democrat and Republican candidates from him? More

The Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) takes a breathtaking step into fantasy-land today as its editorial page offers paeans to "Saudi Statesmanship". More

The joke goes that every time Al Gore opens his mouth, the temperature drops ten degrees. And it's not a bad one, as far as political jokes go, not in the least because it appears to be rather close to the truth. More

Tim Russert berated Robert Novak on air for talking to the FBI without a subpoena. Turns out he had voluntarily cooperated too, and covered it up. More

Earlier, Russert denied that he was happy when Libby was indicted. Firedoglake reports that the defense won and was able to play a tape from the Imus show on MSNBC More

One hundred Islamic scholars have signed an Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI. It explains how he got things wrong in his lecture at the University of Regensburg. More

Tim Russert, who is a key prosecution witness, took the stand for about 11 minutes today in the Libby Trail. It was not a good day for him. More

One of the changes initiated by the new Democrat Congressional leadership was to increase the number of days per week that Congress is in session from three to five. It seems that Congressmen and women in both parties are already starting to complain More

Last week Hillary said she should "take" all of Exxon-Mobil's profits and put it in a special alternative energy fund. Now if this were to happen, many union pension plans would be harmed. More

"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. More

The New York Times carries a troubling piece today that almost glamorizes illegal border crossing. "Run! Hide! The Illegal Border Crossing Experience," reads the headline. More

Group hug! Jimmy's hurtin'. No, he didn't fall and scrape his knee. Former US President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Bringing Peace to the Middle East, and all-around global messenger of sweetness and light, has been called a bigot. More

Hokum! The idea we as a nation wasted billions of dollars on an assertive defense in the GWOT because we went into Iraq is totally ignoring the all the relevant facts. More

On the heels of Ethiopia's decisive victory over terrorists and their Iranian sponsors in Somalia, President Bush announced yesterday the formation of a new unified command. The US African Command (AFRICOM) will better focus both civil and military actions on a continent that has become increasingly important More

A report on left wing ("progressive") anti-Semitism from the American Jewish Committee is drawing howls of protest from Jewish leftists. Some appear to have been driven a bit nutty. More

From the outset, Joseph Wilson IV has insisted he was sent to Niger at the Vice President's behest. But we have just learned in the course of the Libby Trial that even the updated timeline is wrong: Plame recommended her husband for this trip before the vice president even asked about the report More

The bold assurances of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that their predictions are 90% sure should give the layman pause. "If it sounds too good to be true..." More

Aleksander Boyd reports in Vcrisis.com on the second seizure of a major shipment of cocaine coming out of Caracas airport on a flight to Mexico. More

I agree with Jennifer Rubin and have another example for her about how we need to heed those personality traits. More

Today I called my local newspaper to ask why they are running an editorial on the front page. The headline reads: "Bush budget rides on economic luck" More

The story of the Washington state ballot initiative to cancel heterosexual marriages if they don't produce children within three years has achieved wide visibility this morning. More

Ed Lasky was interviewed on Israel National Radio, and a web feed of the interview is now available here. More

When the New York Times chose to reveal secret information about the monitoring of international financial transactions last June, critics, including American Thinker, posited that this would seriously hamper efforts to identify the financiers of terrorism. More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat recently has been watching the escalation of our ongoing conflict with Iran, and has been watching the formation of US policy towatd that nation even longer. More

The British paper, the Guardian, is the paper that the New York Times strives to emulate. But even the Guardian can smell an overcooked turkey, and it has found one in the moonbat offering in the 9/11 conspiracy annals, the film: Loose Change. More

The New York Sun shines its light on a comic headline appearing in the New York Times: "Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War." More

In its ongoing campaign to burnish its readers' view of Islam and Arab nations, the New York Times heaped praise on the wisdom and taste behind the "cultural district" to be built on an island by the Abu Dhabi oil despots. More

FBI Agent Bond admits that she mistestified when she said that Libby told her Rove told Novak. In fact he said Rove said Novak told him about Plame. More

News of Ethiopia's lighting victory over the short-lived Islamic Courts Union in Somalia has nearly vanished from the mainstream media. I suspect there are two reasons for this. First, western news analysts do not know how to interpret this successful campaign -- sponsored surreptitiously by the US More

It seem that the user generated commercials on the Super Bowl were very well received and they certainly are cheaper to make than some of the professionally generated ads that bombed. Paul More

Here is the item Rush referred to. More

The Libby trial continues today with FBI agent Bond acknowledging that her notes are inaccurate and that the summary of the second interview prepared by her supervisor Eckenrode is substantially at odds with her notes. More

The trouble with Republicans is that they don't know how to fight dirty! More

I am shocked! The New York Times admits Palestinians use hospitals to fire from and colleges for arsenals More

Former US generals have called upon a foreign power (the UK) to stop US moves against Iran. Does anyone else have a problem about the propriety here? More

Tucked away in a Matier and Ross article in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Oakland A's new stadium in Freemont would be subject to high tides and "global warming" problems, is a recent poll on Mayor Gavin Newsom. More

It looks like this is spreading. And in multi-culti Canada of all places. Good. More

The sustainability of our effort in Iraq is being questioned in part due to the toll that combat is taking on our forces. In this regard, it is useful to compare the Iraq War with previous American wars More

An institution by that name has opened its doors in Minneapolis, according to Hiraan Online, as discovered and posted on Ummah News Links. More

Back in the Reagan Administration, we had a saying that always drew sneers from the press and from the Washington establishment: "Personnel is policy." Now, just consider two recent personnel decisions by the Bush Administration: More

Like millions of other Americans who have recently acquired large screen high definition televisions, I am hosting a Super Bowl party today. More

From China comes the story of DNA investigation aimed to uncovering evidence of a Roman presence in northwestern China, adjacent to the Gobi desert. More

A senior Pentagon official has lost his job over comments criticizing the law firms which have represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. More

Today's American Thinker features a touching letter to the editor describing SF Mayor Gavin Newsome's "tragedy." But as usual in Baghdad on the Bay, words don't mean what they mean. More

Despite disavowing another run for the presidency, John Kerry has thrust himself onto the global stage in the Middle East and Switzerland. More

We in San Francisco are on the world stage-again with the Gavin Newsom tragedy. San Francisco has predictably placed in the media fishbowl the core values of San Francisco. More

Ray Van Dune (a pseudonym of somebody I know) has resurrected Baker Street's most famous fictional resident to look into The Case of the Purloined NSC Documents. More

The declassified summary of the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq (an NIE is the intelligence community's maximum document) is on the Web More

An unintentionally amusing and revealing news report comes from the Yale Daily News. It seems that applications are down almost ten percent this year for next year's freshman class. More

Good news for those of us who have been concerned about the lack of a paper trail with touch screen voting machines. More

Thank you for once again providing excellent coverage of Airbus and the A380 program. I would like to add a point to your latest article where you mention the effect that delays in the A380 schedule will have on Airbus's suppliers. More

The environmental pseudo-religion so ably described by JR Dunn, not only has its apocalyptic doctrine, it also has its own military arm. More

The first reaction of many residents to Gavin Newsom's affair with one of his best friends' wife was a bit of a yawn, in line with the rest of the world's image of the city as a den of iniquity. More

The BBC headlines the charge of a "human rights organization "that Israel continues to control Gaza through an 'invisible hand'". Does this not prove that no matter what Israel does, it gets blamed? More

The Washington Post online (washingtonpost.com) has an opinion column ("Early Warning") by someone called William Arkin. Mr. Arkin is hilariously clueless More

Want to slam our soldiers, Arkin?/Well here is one to slam./I got used to Lefty slamming/When I came back from Vietnam. More

Most of the country already thinks of San Francisco as a den of iniquity and licentiousness, dedicated to self-indulgence and heedless of the consequences. The political leadership of the city, specifically hizzoner da mare, is doing what it can to confirm the judgment. More

Our astute Libby Trial correspondent Clarice Feldman has been live blogging the Libby Trial from the media room, and has posted her reflections on yesterday's proceedings at Just One Minute. More

Occasionally a combination of the New York Times and PBS produces something positive. More

The Munich District Attorney's office has indicted 13 CIA employees allegedly involved in the Khaled Al-Masri "kidnapping." The incident is being used to whip-up anti-American sentiment throughout the world More