From today's WSJ, this commentary from the recently appointed President Jalal Talabani. Remember, as you read this, that this man is a ...

The London News-Telegraph reports : Saddam Hussein could avoid the gallows under a secret proposal by insurgent leaders that Iraq's new ...

Arthur Chrenkoff is one of the blogosphere's gems. From his perch in Australia, he manages to round up scads of those "good news...

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.   ...

The London News-Telegraph has an excellent story on an interview with Lieutenant Randall, who is still alive and kicking. Here's an exc...

I ran across the Sandmonkey blog while doing some Googling, and right from its slogan it caught my attention: Rantings of a Sandmonkey Be f...

Yesterday I told you how we discovered this nesting Great Horned Owl. This morning, I returned with the great morning light in a complete...

Mark Steyn's latest column is dripping with contempt — in Mark's inimitable style, of course — for the CIA and its attempts to mani...

Big Al's girl lets you know. A taste: #41 When I got sad when I thought of all the times that I was able to just pick up the phone and...

This very moving post ends with this: Some shortsighted people doubt the outcome of this day and think that it's not suitable to announ...

An American soldier was in St. Peter's square when he spotted something most unexpected: an Iraqi flag. The American (Seeba) made his wa...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.    Francis Bacon

Our friend was mowing her yard (on a tractor — we have big yards out here!) when she spotted a little ball of bloody white fluff in front of...

With very little fanfare and almost no public recognition, the two Mars Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) recently got funding for 18 more mo...

This is the first I'd heard that beards were an issue in Afghanistan. Read the whole column ; it's quite interesting. Here's t...

Those amongst my readers who know me well know that I am not a religious man. Further, they may know that I have some particular antipathy ...

Today Mahdy Ali Lafta is the head of the Iraqi Teacher's Union, an educational activist. His story provides an interesting glimpse of h...

TigerHawk proposes that an apology privilege be created in law, so that one could apologize to someone who felt wronged without admitting c...

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.    Aristotle

Publius Pundit has a great post about yesterday's selection of an Iraqi prime minister and the early workings of the Iraqi democratic p...