When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.

Ruthlessly avoiding fights that aren’t worth the risk is shrewd leadership. But Romney still needs to show he can fight and win.

A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Wolf Blitzer just observed that the fact that the president has to take these “extraordinary security precautions” to enter Afghanistan proves how far we still have to go in Afghanistan.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

Five suspects have been arrested in a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge.

We seldom blame presidents for bold actions that go wrong. We despise them for appearing weak and indecisive.

Once upon a time, Jimmy Carter was everyone’s favorite former president. Not so much these days, especially among other former presidents.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

Should the United States Navy name a ship after martyred gay activist Harvey Milk? This is not a rhetorical question.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Al Gore will be part of the inaugural class of the Internet Hall of Fame. Politico (“No invention: Al Gore’s Internet honor“): Former Veep Al Gore is now getting a bit of credit for his infamous 1999 claim that “I took the initiative in creating the Internet”: He’ll be one of the first inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame. [...]

The American economy is so bad that people are reverse migrating to the Third World.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

Pat Summitt’s predecessor stepped down as head coach to work on her doctorate.

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

Some Marine women are going to Infantry Officers Course. Here’s how to make it work.

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Andy Baio and friends have undertaken an interesting project: color coding political blogs to track bias.

The story of Ensign Chuck Lord may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history

The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”

Andrew Exum believes the Army should “get rid of all medals not related to valor or campaign-specific service.”

What’s worse: Leon Panetta spending $860,000 in taxpayer money flying home? Or the GSA spending $823,000 on a conference?

In an epic Internet scandal, Obama strategist David Axelrod has bought an expensive condo.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

The gang at 22words feature an “Amusingly pissed-off letter to Continental Airlines about a seat by the lavatory” written back in 2005.

Why the Internet is awesome: a Taiwanese animatronic take on the Secret Service hookers scandal.

My latest for The National Interest, “Turkey Cries Wolf,” has been posted.

“President Obama” is the answer to “one of these not like the others” in this world leaders photo taken during his Colombia visit.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

The Secretary of State is ignoring a hold by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman.

William Todd committed at least nine felonies in the span of ten hours in Nashville.

Shockingly, the “Springfield” in the long-running sittcom “The Simpsons” is Springfield, Oregon, near where creator Matt Groening grew up.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”