A visual representation of the coalition deaths since the invasion of Iraq. (via ICasualties.org)

According to Arianna Huffington, this story is a load of BS. The anticlimactic ending seems to be that Cheney left the hospital under his own power after an angina attack, though it's amusing to note that the White House appears to consider this episode is worth...

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who stole the 7,000 page secret history of the Viewtnam War know as the Pentagon Papers, which he leaked to the U.S. Senate and the newspapers back in 1971. In the second hour, the...

The US military is admitting to "casualties" after a car bomb attack on a Marine convoy in the "safest city in Iraq." Xinhua is claiming to have spoken to an eyewitness:An overnight roadside bomb blast struck a US military patrol in Iraq's western city of Fallujah,...

I think that I will use the following from Don Boudreaux the next time I receive a "you don't support the troops" emails: Libertarians understand in their guts that flags, anthems, marble domes and columns, fancy titles, embassies, and majoritarian-voting procedures...

Personal reasons have precluded me from doing a Balkan Express this week, but the column will return on its regular schedule next Thursday, June 30.

According to Al-Jazeera, Ayman-shouldn't he have been caught by now?-al-Zawahiri has a new tape out, and he sounds just like the conservatives on my local talk-radio station:1. Shariah Is The Only Source Of Law “This Ummah will not accept any forms of laws or...

Numerous reports have surfaced on the web claiming that the US government is covering up thousands of US deaths from the war in Iraq: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in...

There's a wave of "tagging" washing through the blogosphere: the idea is to stimulate discussion of books by "tagging" someone you know to reveal what books they've read recently, how many books they own, the five top books that went into forming their views, etc....

The Turkish Weekly reports (hat tip: Juan Cole): "Eighty two Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pressed for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops from their country. "The Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist legislators...