Unqualified Offerings

And the good news is, Rhapsody will let you listen to Buddy and Julie Miller’s version of “Away in a Manger” for free.

My my. Congress would like to know if the FBI has made any progress in the last five-odd years toward solving America’s most notorious biological weapons attack. Just out of curiousity I suppose.
When historians recollect the first decade of the 21st Century in tranquility, they will find it impossible to overstate the political impact of [...]

At least a few weeks ago, BruceR of Flit was making a plausible enough case that things in Afghanistan were not so bad and getting better – the, well, uptick in violence represented the Taliban trying to hold on as NATO expanding its control into previously Taliban-friendly areas of the country. I don’t know if [...]

The awesome Eric Martin gets only partway to awesome in his response to the latest in retrospective bedwetting, “the inevitability argument” that “we” had to attack Iraq when we did because “the sanctions regime was crumbling!” The rest of the way is recognizing that, even had sanctions “crumbled,” Iraq would not represent a major security [...]

More on the Saudi side of the runup to “The New Thirty Years War” from the New York Times.
If I may Silberize for a moment, back in 2002 the antiwarblogosphere had an “internet” “-blog” “Burst” where everyone published letters to their Congresspeople urging them to vote against the Iraqi Use of Farce Resolution in October. [...]

A blog called “Too Old for TNR” that took all its post titles from the American standards songbook – Cole Porter, Jimmy Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Woodie Guthrie et al – would be awesome.

Yglesias and Alex Knapp on the twin horrors of Jeane Kirkpatrick and Augusto Pinochet in retrospective.