Ehud Olmert Resigns -- Summary Of News On the Consequences Of This Resignation

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends a memorial ceremony for the late Zeev Jabotinsky at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem ...

Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say

Afghan and Indian officials removed a body from the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after a bombing there on July 7. From The New York...

War News, Blogs, Opinions, And Wire Service Roundup -- August 1, 2008

A U.S. Marine stands watch at a check point in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 21, 2008. Marines assigned to the 24th Expeditionary Un...

Final Post For Tonight -- Tribute To Our Canadian Soldiers

White House Unveils Intelligence Powers Overhaul

Director of National Intelligence retired Navy Adm. Mike McConnell delivers remarks after his ceremonial swearing-in at Bolling Air Force Ba...

"Zero Tolerance"

On Board Restrictions For everyone's safety and comfort, Greyhound asks that customers please follow certain restrictions while on board...

Gag Order -- How Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar Muscled Tony Blair Into Silence

Royal Saudi Air Force -- Panavia Tornado From Newsweek: The United Kingdom's highest court today provided new details of how the Saudis ...

Journey Inside The Taliban: Briton's Dangerous Secret Meeting With The Warlords Who Will Never Surrender

Militants who claim they are Talibans in Zabul province, Afghanistan From The Daily Mail: They slipped into the remote mountaintop farmhouse...

Missile Defense News -- July 31, 2008

Missile Defense Supporters Credit Bush's National Security Vision (w/video)-- CNSNews (CNSNews.com) – Effective anti-missile defense sys...

Al Qaeda Leaving Iraq For Afghanistan

An Iraqi youth sits on the ground close to US soldiers holding a defensive position during a neighborhood search in Baquba earlier this we...

US Monthly Toll In Iraq At Lowest Since Invasion

Members of an honor guard carry the casket of Army SSG Christopher M. Hake to his grave during his burial service at Arlington National Ce...

Fight or Flight

It's one of several Illinois communities — reluctant to spend money on legal fights — rushing to repeal their gun bans after the court s...

Zargonians Issue Ultimatum

Alabama Boy Gets Death Threats for Hunting 1,000-Pound ‘Monster Pig’ Anonymous cowards wishing death on children they hate. How very courage...

I'm the Only One Begging Off Enough

I'm getting so many "Only Ones" tips I'm losing focus on other issues of equal importance. They will continue to be a regu...

Did The U.S. Surge In Iraq Change The Battlefield

From The Belmont Club: Two assertions about Iraq ought to be challenged or at least examined more closely. The first is the idea that securi...

A Handgun Against an Army=10 Years After

Mike Vanderboegh revisits an essay, available for both your edification and general melanin-deficient individual traumatizing purposes, a...

Pakistan War News Updates -- July 31, 2008

Taliban flags on Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan: Photo by Talk Radio News What Pakistan's Intelligence Ties Say About End...

All Your Babe Are Belong to Us

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way...

We're the Only Ones Shocked, Shocked Enough

“I’m shocked - completely shocked,” Raynham Police Chief Lou Pacheco said of Valerio Rodriguez ’ no-show at Taunton District Court on July 2...

Nonaligned Countries Back Iran's Nuclear Program

Picture of an atmospheric nuclear test in French Polynesia, August 1971. Kodachrome color slide scan from an Instamatic camera. From Reuter...

We're the Only Ones Awarding Enough

A family whose house was raided by police in error is outraged that eight officers involved were honored. Police say the eight, who also too...

Kitsch

Maybe so, but I'd rather be a well-defended and self-sufficient Heartlander than a helpless "sophisticate" bleeding out all o...

Challenges Of The Muslim World: Oil, Testosterone And War

Mecca From Austin Bay: Oil and unemployed testosterone don't mix, they collide -- with war the likely result. "Economics and demogr...

Something About Mary

Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person. In...

This Day in History: July 31

[H]aving just before the Receipt of it had Accounts by a private Hand of the Sailing of a Number of Men of War and Transports from Boston; w...

Spain Warns Of Big Attack By Separatists ETA Soon

Hundreds of thousands of people marched in cities across Spain Sunday, including Bilbao in the Basque Country, to protest the ETA bombing. (...

War News, Blogs, Opinions, And Wire Service Roundup -- July 31, 2008

A sailboat crosses in front of the guided missile destroyers USS Pinckney, USS Chung-Hoon and USS Kane as they perform a sail-by near Waikik...

Final Post For Tonight -- U.S. Navy Tribute

How Terrorist Groups End -- The Rand Report And A Collection Of Comments And Opinions On Its Conclusions

From The Rand Corporation: How Terrorist Groups End -- Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida By: Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki All terrori...

Iraqi Parliament Deadlocks Over Kirkuk

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a U.S. military helicopter takes off at New Al-Muthana Air Base in Baghdad July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Thaier ...

Will Peace Hold in Sadr City?

U.S. soldier holds his sniper position on a rooftop in a Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, in this April file photo. From Time ...

UN: NKorea Facing Worst Food Crisis Since 1990s

In this photo released by World Food Program Wednesday, July 30, 2008, malnourished children are seen at an orphanage in Chongjin City, No...

Pakistan Intelligence Riddled With Supporters Of Taliban and al-Qaeda, Purge May Be Coming

From Strata-Sphere: The tensions and fighting are still escalating in the tribal areas that span the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Whi...

End Of Petraeus, Crocker Era Dawning

Gen. David Petraeus & Ambassador Ryan Crocker. From CBS News: (CBS/AP) One of the defining features of Gen. David Petraeus' tenure ...

U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.

From Newsmax: Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national ...

Al-Qaeda's Sinister Creep Into North Africa

AQ In North Africa (Pat Dollard) From Times Online: As the jihadists face defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are moving stealthily into a ...

From Counterinsurgents to Peacekeepers

Sadr City Streets From Commentary Magazine: Associated Press Baghdad Bureau Chief Robert Reid and his chief military reporter Robert Burns ...