WHAT IS THE WAR?

Marc Ribot .

This is contemptible : Dozens of Palestinian students from the youth division of Fatah, the mainstream party led by President Mahmoud Abbas,...

The Washington Post reports that " President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-pr...

DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight (money at 3:07)

I recommend Juan Cole's analysis of yesterday's Revolution Day demonstrations in Iran, which the government seems to have had well ...

Bill Frisell .

Yesterday on Glenn Beck's Wild-Eyed Hysteria Hour, the Tearful One managed to pack an unusually impressive amount of incoherent stupidit...

Billy Gibbons .

In an uncharacteristically obtuse response to Adam Serwer's article on how the GOP seems intent on unlearning hard-won lessons about t...

I think Yglesias did a good job knocking back David Frum's bizarre claim that the Team B hawks were right about the Soviet threat , but...

Yes, Jimmy Page. Because I've been mainlining Zeppelin lately.

Responding to Matt Yglesias' response to Marty Peretz's latest bout of Tourette's , Jonathan Chait writes : [M]y basic view is ...

I'd like to endorse Spencer's criticisms of David Hajdu's argument that Rock Band will result in the extinction of rock bands ,...

Brownie McGhee (with Sonny Terry)

In the hyper-charged atmosphere following the 9/11 attacks, anyone who suggested that U.S. policies or behavior played any -- any -- part i...

The Weekly Standard's John Noonan might want to think about thinking out loud less : [W]ould Obama have doubled-down in Afghanistan if P...

Working in his capacity as amplifier of Israeli alarm over Iran, Jeffrey Goldberg passes this along regarding the murder of Ali Moussavi, ...

Today, Iran's leading daily newspaper featured an op-ed by a conservative Iranian university professor insisting that there is only one...

Here's an easy way to tell where someone stands on the Iran question: If they constantly refer to "the mullahs" ( religious le...

New item up at Comment is Free : Though dozens of civilians continue to be killed every week by terrorist bombings in Iraq, and simmering te...

Roy Buchanan.

Dismissing President Obama's Nowruz message last week as a "video mash note to Iran," The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes...

Ali Farka Toure.

New item at Comment is Free : There is another significant cost that must be factored into the Iraq debacle: Afghanistan. New York Times rep...

T-Bone Walker.

The dream is over : The teenage daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her fiance have broken up just over two month...