Republican Rep. Buck McKeon, who will chair the House Armed Services Committee in the new Congress gave a speech today at the Foreign Policy Initiative that touched on, among other things, detainee polic...

This article in GQ has generated a fair bit of unfavorable buzz about Attorney General Eric Holder. The article is, in my judgment, rather unfair--both to Holder and to the Bush administration folks who ...

President Bush’s new book Decision Points, and the interviews Bush has given in connection with the book, have caused some commentators from different parts of the political spec

The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the administration's solution to the problem of how to try KSM and his buddies may be, well, not to bother: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed m...

A story on NPR's All Things Considered tonight ("Al-Qaida, Affiliates Showing Greater Coordination") conveys a claim by U.S.

The bulk of the fighting in World War I ended in 1918 when an armistice took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- i.e., at 11 a.m.

I’d like to draw attention to a handful of Mexico-related items this afternoon.  First, Tracy Wilkinson at the L.A. Times has a terrific piece discussing the degree of cartel control in Reynosa (across t...

Mark Erickson, author of the Norwegian Shooter blog sent me a thoughtful note objecting to Bobby and my discussion of the D.C. Circuit's Salahi decision. I invited him to write up his thoughts as a guest...

They say you can't tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. Circuit aff...