A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. "On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...

From the Sunday Montgomery [Ala.] Advertiser: Davis Tops List for Perk Trips Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, accepted trips from special interests that cost nearly $13,000. Davis flew to Israel, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pittsburgh. Davis' weeklong trip...

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Speaking of the "capture" theory, Daniel McCarthy sends in this item from the print version of National Review, Jan. 26 issue: Former Marine Corps general Anthony C. Zinni is a critic of the Iraq war. Saddam Hussein "was contained," Zinni told the Washington Post in a...

Was I just dreaming, or did I see David Frum, Richard Perle, and David Byrne together on CNBC last night? OK, they weren't together, but they were all guests on the comely Maria Bartiromo's program. Frum & Perle were promoting their new foray into children's...

With all the talk of neoconservative influence, it's important to remember that neoconservatism is only one of many ingredients in Bush foreign policy--an important ingredient, worth discussing, but it sometimes overshadows everything else. Some antiwar conservatives...

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William Rivers Pitt presents this powerful perpective on who will be the soldier whose death will receive the dubious honor of being The Five Hundred in our continuing tragic war in Iraq. It will be upon us soon. Sometime, likely before January is out, the 500th...

In a bold move sure to confuse the Bush campaign, The New Republic has endorsed five Democrats for president. Joe Lieberman gets the editors' nod, however, and the cover. Here's why: [T]he fight against Saddam Hussein falls within a hawkish liberal tradition that...