Christopher Hitchens calls for détente with Iran! (While covering his ass for previous warmongering, but still…)

In a very interesting piece at the Telegraph, self-described imperialist Niall Ferguson revisits Gladstone's six principles of foreign policy. One struck me as particularly fitting in light of Bush's India-Pakistan tour:"Even when you do a good thing," Gladstone...

Good God. Did you know about this? Credit card payments at a certain percentage above one's average payment automatically trigger an investigation by Homeland Security. (Via LRC.)

Well, Murray Waas at the National Journal has another scoop, and this ought to be a big one. It seems Waas has confirmed that Bush was told about the State Department's INR, the DOE and the IAEA's insistance that those infamous aluminum tubes were for rockets back in...

Harry Browne died last night. Harry was one of the leading antiwar voices within the libertarian movement. The author of 12 books, he was the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. Harry was one of the first libertarians to speak out after 9/11,...

What makes the nuclear programs of India and Iran so different, other than the fact that, unlike the former, the latter is a signatory to the Nonproliferation Treaty and has no nuclear weapons program? From President Bush's press conference in New Delhi:Q: Mr....

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When I interviewed [.mp3] former US Marine and lie-debunking UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, last year, he got all bent out of shape when I brought up Iraqi General Hussein Kamal [at about 38:00]. Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, defected to Jordan in 1995,...

Jeremy noted how evidence has shown Saddam Hussein pardoned two men who plotted to kill him, and jailed the head of his secret police when four innocent men were executed. As part of his defense before the Hague Inquisition, Slobodan Milosevic has presented many...

I hate that something so obvious needs a caveat, but here, for those who aren't so bright: Saddam bad. k? Alright, let's move on. When I was little, during the Gulf War, it was popular to talk about "Saddam Insane." 10-year-olds didn't make this up on their own -- it...