Here's the full text of a new State Department travel warning for Israel, Gaza and the West Bank: *** "The U.S. Department o...

...and he wants his wig back. Meet the exquisitely named Igor Girkin, the military genius who commands the pro-Russian separatist rebel ...

[ Updated, and see link to MSNBC falling for a Howard Stern prankster at end ] . If a ground-to-air missile did indeed bring down the ...

After a six-month hiatus, I'm back to the blog today, inspired once again by the evidently congenital emotionalism in Brazil, and wond...

The Fall of Saigon, 1975 Given the rolling fiasco of airline cancellations in the last six days, with travelers still stranded at airp...

[UPDATED Dec. 27] I never cease to be amazed by corporate PR responses to their companies' fiascoes. Latest case in point, Target, the...

That's the air travel delay mess currently illustrated on Flightview.com http://www.flightview.com/ after tornadoes and thundersto...

The media are going to be driving us to distraction in coming week with endless reprisals of the Kennedy saga, now that we're up agai...

There are two important stories about attack drones in the two newspapers I read today. One's a major piece, fully reported out, in the ...

The closing of Saguaro National Park is neighborhood news where I live, adjacent to the park, on the east side of Tucson. Everything...

I think Jonathan Chait has it about right in this analysis of the latest ugly Washington showdown, which he refers to as a kind of "sof...

There's often some justifiable criticism of the State Department's sometimes sweeping travel warnings and alerts for being somewhat ...