NBC Universal has decided not to offer their programming through iTunes anymore — meaning that shows like The Office and Battlestar Galactica will no longer be available for download. Apple’s press release makes it clear what motivated the decision: “We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic [...]
Charles Krauthammer joins the chorus of people saying that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki should get the boot. There seems to be a very strong argument that al-Maliki has failed to make the sort of political progress necessary to move Iraq forward. Iraq needs a strong leader, and while al-Maliki at first appeared to be [...]
Pajamas Media has details of Fred Thompson formally entering the 2008 race. His campaign has stumbled in the last few weeks with staffing shakeups, but the reality is that nobody outside the Beltway is going to care about those things. Thompson is either going to stand or fall based on how well he connects with [...]
Dr. David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on counterinsurgency warfare has a fascinating look into how al-Qaeda in Iraq lost in al-Anbar Province and what it means for the wider war in Iraq. In the end, what motivated the Iraqis to defeat AQI in those regions was simple self-interest: The uprising began last [...]
Glenn Reynolds has a round-up of links on the Times‘ latest silly gaffe. The New York Times evidently can’t even identify whether a quotation comes from the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If it were some blogger, it would be an error. But when it’s the “newspaper of record” for the country (although [...]
An outbreak of violence at a Shi’a pilgrimage has forced radical Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr to issue a call to his Mahdi Army to back off attacks against US and Iraqi troops. The violence in the sacred Shi’ite city of Karbala exposes the reality that Iraqi Shi’a are not one monolithic bloc as is commonly [...]
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) will seek reelection in 2008 after suffering a major brain aneurysm last year. There’s been a great deal of secrecy over his condition, and the voters of South Dakota do have some interest in knowing whether their Senator can fulfill his duties. However, it looks like Senator Johnson will make a [...]