Author: Jay Tea

Well, there's more talk of a "peace conference" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this one to be held in Annapolis. And the talk this time is that this is to …

It seems to me that a good chunk of the people backing Ron Paul aren't doing so because they want him to win, but because of the potential mischief …

If there's an unofficial database of bloggers and their birthdays, it's maintained by Jay Solo of Blogblivion (formerly Accidental Verbosity). I've been a longtime reader of that site, run …

Well, the final verdict is in over in London, in regards to the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. And it's a clear verdict: the police screwed up …

There's a lot of fuss this weekend over news that a close friend and supporter of Fred Thompson's, one Philip Martin, has a criminal record. More specifically, he was …

Some fine folks over at Harvard have put together a two-volume encyclopedia on "Islam In America," and it's getting pretty decent reviews. At least, the author of the Boston …

Over at Rob Port's excellent blog, Say Anything, he has a contributor by the name of "Pilgrim." (Why bloggers can't just use their real names, I'll never know.) He's …

Yesterday, the Boston Globe wrote an editorial that seems to come out against New York Governor Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Their main argument against …

Over the last 24 hours or so, I have learned something remarkable about myself. First, I learned that I was woefully ignorant about the Foreign Service part of the …

There's a lot of fuss going around about members of the State Department not being able to staff the embassy in Iraq. Not enough diplomats have volunteered, so they're …