Tim Cavanaugh splashes some context on the "it had to be Syria" narrative of the recent murder of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni:[Y]ou can get a sense of what made him a polarizing figure in his responses to my followup question: Nobody knows how many Shi'ites there are in...

From the AP:WASHINGTON - The world has shirked its duty to help prosecute Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday. "The international community's effective boycott of Saddam's trial is only harming the Iraqi people, who are now working to...

If you've gotten the same mass-forwarded e-mail as Michael Brendan Dougherty's friend, your reply-to-all begins here.

According to the Center for American Progress, the war is Iraq is costing $177 million per day, $7.4 million per hour, and $122,820 per minute. The Center has available a Cost of Iraq War Ticker that can be added to websites.

Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy died yesterday at the age of 89. Reactions here. Last June, Patrick Buchanan asked, "Who is the Eugene McCarthy of this generation?" In a June 2004 interview with Salon.com, McCarthy explained his decision to challenge LBJ on an...

I just now read Chris Matthew Sciabarra's note at Liberty and Power that Bill Bradford, editor of Liberty Magazine, lost his life to cancer on Thursday, December 8. He was 58. I am very sad to hear this. I had the pleasure of meeting Bill at the LP National Convention...

This morning, Rational Review reports the untimely death of R.W. Bradford, publisher of Liberty magazine. He was 58 and had fought heroically against cancer for many months. I first met Bill Bradford 26 years ago. He was a dedicated and unwavering fighter for liberty...

Saturday from 6-8 pm EST on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Larisa Alexandrovna from Raw Story about the Fitzgerald investigation and related matters. Then in the second hour, my friend Anthony Gregory from the Independent Institute will return to...

General Ante Gotovina, hunted by the Hague Inquisition over his role in the 1995 blitzkrieg against the Krajina Serbs, was arrested in the Canary Islands (Spain) on Wednesday evening. Croatian authorities, who have steadfastly maintained that Gotovina was not in...

Remember the mystery surrounding the crash of the British RAF Hercules on Purple Finger Day in Iraq? It was widely reported as a shootdown, but of course, we've had to wait for the "facts" to be determined by the state. Here, nearly a year later, is the official...