Pen and Sword

Fred Kagan wants you to have faith in the Iraq "surge" strategy. You might expect that he would. Kagan is, after all, the strate...

Here's another one from the "Irony is Dead" file. On Wednesday, Jim Rutenberg and Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times reve...

It's been another week chock full of Bush administration double talk, starting off with the latest stall for time in the Iraq "surg...

Bush: Hiding Behind the Troops "The one thing I really take objection to… Is politicians who try to put their political views into the...

I swore I'd stay away from the war news for a week during my "vacation." I couldn't do it. It's a dead skunk sort of...

Now that the Fourth has come and gone, I'll be throttling back on the writing for a few weeks, partly to refill the well and partly just...

Can we ever rein in this president? Last week, Arlen Specter introduced the Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007. The bill is desi...

Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times is once again at the center of a mainstream media story that appears designed to get the Bush admin...

Once again, the Democrats are looking to ban pursuit of permanent military bases in Iraq. Good luck to them, they'll need plenty of it...

Will we ever get a straight story from the Bush administration on Iraq? On Thursday, an Associated Press story reported that "A top U....