friday reads

Georgia claimed today to have downed two Russian warplanes over its territory after the former Soviet neighbours came into direct conflict over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.


As U.S. military casualties mount in Afghanistan, a retired four-star Army general, who just returned from reviewing the six-plus-year war effort, said the country "is in misery" and describes the war as "a 25-year campaign."


McCain campaign rewarding trolls and spammers.


Murray Waas: Special prosecutor a possibility as U.S. attorney and DOJ politicization probes reach into the White House?


Because the world doesn't have enough stupid people.


Countdown: Nothing About the FBI's Anthrax Story Adds Up