"The highly vaunted US military machine, laurelled and praised for its historic march on Baghdad in March and April of 2003, today finds itself a broken force, on the defensive in a land that it may occupy in part, but does not control. History…

Mr. Ritter’s new gig, writing for Al Jazeera is not even worth fisking, which motivated me to go back and look at the history of ‘Tokyo Rose’. All of which begs the question: how close is this precedent to what Ritter is doing now? I’ll submit that, …

The man I am most jealous of in this world*, Salmon Rushdie, gives us today’s theme:The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted is absurd. So too is…

Some matches just make sense, you know, like chocolate and that stuff they put in a Three Musketeers. Here, indeed, is a match that makes even more sense than that. Not all Marines take pride in the work of their…