The Washingon Post yesterday noted a potential standoff between the feds and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin over the Mayor’s overtures about allowing evacuees back into New Orleans and its environs immediately—a standoff that has for the time being been avoided in the wake of Nagin’s Monday afternoon press conference (just now completed). Citing worries over tropical storm Rita, Nagin announced the suspension of re-entry into New Orleans and called

From the AP: North Korea agreed Monday to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament after two years of six-nation talks. The chief U.S. envoy to the talks praised the development as a “win-win situation” and “good agreement for all of us.” But he promptly urged Pyongyang to make good

…Bolton calls that a mustache?  Please.  My mustache used to fuck mustaches like that in prison…

An interesting observation from Bill Kristol, writing of the Weekly Standard’s first ten years: Among the most important lessons I’ve learned [in the first decade as Weekly Standard editor], blindingly obvious though it might at first appear, is one I think applies with equal force not just to Washington journalists but also to the people we write about–and to our readers. It concerns a central, chronic misunderstanding of modern political