Doug: Be very, very careful with those “Zogby Interactive” surveys. Unlike a traditional poll, which selects a sample by randomly dialing phone numbers, Zogby Interactive uses volunteers answering questions on the internet. While Zogby attempts to adjust the sample demographically…

Today is the Shiite Muslim holiday of Ashura. In Iran, it has meant bloody clashes between protestors and regime thugs: Iranian police opened fire on protesters in Tehran on Sunday, killing at least four people, including a nephew of the…

That’s what the White House is calling an incident aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 today, in which a Nigerian man, who claims to be affiliated with al Qaeda, attempted to set off some sort of explosive device. As usual, details…

A few years back Jimmy Carter published an idiotic book called Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The book, and Carter’s statements in interviews promoting it, kicked off a discussion in Jewish circles about whether the former President is an anti-Semite, a…

As anticipated, the funeral for dissident Iranian cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri turned into a massive anti-government protest: Hundreds of thousands of opposition protesters openly challenged the authority of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today by mourning the death of…

Hossein Ali Montazeri was always deeply inconvenient to the Iranian regime — one of the most senior clerics in the country, he was unafraid to denounce the bloody tyranny wrought by the Islamic revolution he had supported. Until 1989, when…

Phil’s post yesterday on Romneycare and the current Senate healthcare bill struck me as, if not necessarily unfair to Romney, then perhaps incomplete in its critique. Phil writes: So now, if Obamacare passes, Romney will be left telling angry primary…

Hilariously, Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Previous winners include Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Al Gore (2007); the gag in my headline (swiped from PJ Doland) isn’t really much of a gag. The Peace Prize…

So the Obama Administration has decided to scrap the missile defense systems planned for installation in Poland and the Czech Republic, just as the Russians had been agitating for. The Administration says that a sea-based missile defense will meet our…

While I’ve often thought that Tom Friedman’s thinking is muddled, I have never before thought of it as depraved. But what other conclusion can one draw from this? Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is…