Flares into Darkness

Editorial: Voice of the People No one should pretend, of course, that the violence will now end rapidly. But the display of determination by...

Iraq did. Polls Close After Iraqi Voters Turn Out in Droves Aliens invaders take over Los Angeles Times "A GOOD DAY IN AL ANBAR PROVINC...

It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation. And it's getting more and more absurd. It's sad, so sad Why can't we talk it...

Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon has indicated that Saddam moved chemical weapons to Syria several weeks for the start of the war. G...

Pajamas Media will be providing periodic updates from Iraqi correspondents in Iraq as the day progresses. The stories posted by the Pajamas...

Think about everything you’ve heard about the conditions in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces, the multi-layered complexities of the war. Then...

Terranet : A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese milit...

The penultimate paragraph of the original Congressional Omerta article made this prognostication concerning the Barrett Report: The America...

Time has some wonderful pictures to choose from, but this my favorite.

I just read back over some old threads and noticed something. Early defeats in the South Pacific in WW2 were the fault of isolationist Repub...

Apparently, Ramadi is better equipped for democracy than at least one US city: Blanco: NO elections

Bill is the gift that just keeps giving. My friends here at Flares have made mention of a little known scandal involving the use of the IRS ...

On Dec.2 Knucklehead linked this seemingly dispositive piece which convincingly asserted Corps of Engineers design flaws (or contractor chi...

From Chaotic Synaptic Activity, a short report on a talk given by two newpaper folk who served in WWII, How Did WWII Affect Newspaper Edito...

So I'll just let Jeff Goldstein say it: On the cusp of nationwide elections in Iraq—as insurgent Sunni Arabs eager to join the politi...

The extent to which Governor Kathleen Blanco played politics with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is slowly coming out into the open. Her...

It is surely no exaggeration to say that a man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those arou...

… puts the recent BBC/ABC poll into graphical form. 77 percent of Iraqis say their lives are good. 52 percent says their lives are better...

Someone had to have some. Superbowl Sunday . All other world controversies are temporarily knocked off stage by Janet Jackson's nipple....

Seneca the Younger raised this question in an earlier post. After some memory and web searching, I managed to find this old post by Callimac...