Double-crossing the Rubicon

I wasn't crazy about the idea, but when the Arab League backed it I was somewhat mollified (and pretty much assumed that it was inevitab...

News from Libya over the past few days has been alternately frustrating and depressing. The momentum of the opposition forces seems to have ...

The big news today, as far as Libya is concerned (from an American perspective), is president Obama’s comments . Frustrating as it may have...

It’s a funny thing, but Gaddafi has really done us all a favor here. As I said yesterday , he has secured himself a place on the list of h...

Lots of people doing excellent updates now - I'll be posting some analysis later today when I get home. In the meantime, you may find ...

Well, seems the die is cast. In an attempt to make up for last night’s “crazy man with an umbrella mumbling in a truck” speech, brother l...

“I am satisfied, because I was speaking in front of the youth in the Green Square tonight, but the rain came praise to God it bears well. ...

What now? Quite a weekend for me.  Yesterday my page had some 400 hits in a 24-hour period, a pretty dramatic record, considering I was av...

So, Libya again. As I’ve said before, the situation in Libya is incredibly important.  It’s also unique in many respects. Although Alger...

I mentioned last week that Ghaddafi had been awfully quiet lately. Well, apparently his mouth is run out of patience. On Sunday he announce...