Via the Iowa Republican: Palin Headed to Iowa? TheIowaRepublican.com has learned that former Alaska Governor and Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could be the featured speaker for the Iowa Family Policy Center’s fall fundraiser in Des Moines...

In a a column in WaPo, Steven F. Hayward asks Is Conservatism Brain-Dead? On balance, the piece asks the same questions that many have been asking for a while, like: where’s this generation’s William F. Buckley? what should we make of ...

Via the BBC: Fujimori sentenced for corruption: In April this year, he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings. In July he was sentenced to a further seven-and-a-half years for embez...

There has been occasional angst over the state of US-UK relations since Obama’s election. Most of this angst has been based in the gifts given to Prime Minister Brown and to the Queen.1 This week, however, there have been reports of snubs by ...

Via the BBC: Iran inmates ‘tortured to death’ One of Iran’s defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after July’s disputed poll were tortured to death in prison. The claim by Mehdi Karroubi ...