I know that you haven’t heard this from the media (remember, good news is no news), but coalition casualties in Iraq are at their lowest monthly average since the fall of Baghdad.
In related news, Iraq Body Count (a group notorious for inflating its numbers) reports that civilian deaths are just over 10,000. Total coalition deaths [...]

I suppose that deep down, I knew that my boy Bush would come out in favor of the gay marriage amendment eventually. Still, it really hurt to turn on CNN and hear that he had finally made his opinions known.
I’ve browsed through ProQuest, and haven’t been able to find any record of Bush making any [...]

Roger Scruton of openDemocracy that Immanual Kant would support the war in Iraq.
While I’m quite unfamiliar with Kant’s work, this is an interesting concept.

After an absurd amount of hounding from the media and leftists pundits, the White House has released roughly 400 pages of documents relating to George W. Bush’s military service. Additionally, a retired officer from the Alabama Air National Guard spoke up, saying that he remembered Bush. Hopefully, the reasonable people of the world can now [...]

Matt Drudge is now reporting that John Kerry is going to have some problems with an “intern issue.”
A lot of conservative pundits are saying that this is the beginning of the end for Kerry’s candidacy, but I beg to differ. The Democrats don’t care about anyone’s sex life (unless that person happens to be a [...]

France’s parliament voted yesterday to ban religious emblems in schools (most notably, Muslim head scarves).
While I’m always in favor of taking down organized religion – out of all the world’s organized religions, I’m certainly not a fan of Islam – this is an example of forced conformity gone mad.
Supporters of this measure argue that it [...]

Robert J. Samuelson has written an excellent piece in the February 9th issue of Newsweek on Europe’s current economic mess. In what can only be called an extraordinary summary of the failings of “enlightened” socialism, Samuelson states:
Europe’s economic model could once be defended as a justifiable political choice. People could select their flavor of prosperity. [...]

After his presentation of the 2005 defense budget for the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on Wednesday, Donald Rumsfeld made a few remarks about intelligence and the problems associated with infiltrating closed societies. To illustrate his point, he showed this picture:

The southern part of the map is South Korea. It is an open, free, [...]