John: Why sea-based? Iran can disperse, harden and create a tremendous nuclear arsenal without the necessity of basing them at…

According to this Bloomberg report, a new Quinnipiac poll puts the Prez/s support down to 36%. The earlier CBS poll,…

According to this BBC report, a dozen writers including Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British writer who still lives under a…

Actually, I think he’s looking to rule a partitioned piece of Iraq. The more senior Shia – Sistani among them…

Calls for calm in Iraq emanating from Moqtada al-Sadr last week are being viewed by some as good news. What…

Failure in Iraq is within our grasp, but success now seems out of reach. It lies ahead, somewhere, in a…

John: That’s the whole point. If they want ratings, give us sports not some frozen romance novel. The reason women’s…

John: No matter how you slice it (or edit it) objective results are what make sports different from soap operas….

The Winter Olympics — thanks, mostly, to NBC — have been a crashing bore. For all the bad ratings they’ve…

Well, we’ve had a busy week, haven’t we? One of Shia Islam’s principal shrines has been blown up, a port…