Three British Airways aircraft that fly the London-Moscow route are being tested for radiation traces. Of the two in London, traces of radiation have been detected.

Is this how the polonium that killed Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko got into Britain?

Diane McWhorter has a provocative commentary in Slate about what it was U.S. voters were trying to say about Dubya: Do they dislike his policies or just the fact he was bad at implementing them? (h/t to Herr Speicher)

Political scientists Dominic Tierney and Dominic Johnson argue that two supposed American failures -- the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and the Somalia mission of 1992-93 -- were actually successes.

It's just no one thought of them that way.

Whoever contaminated ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210 knew what they were doing and had to be connected to get the substance in the first place.

Many European Union countries knew the CIA was using their territory to either transfer prisoners or hold them in black prisons and either did nothing or helped, a European Parliament report has found.

Matt Lauer of NBC said his network would start referring to what's happening in Iraq as a civil war. Revolutionary, eh? Except the NYT and Washington Post have been doing so for months without fanfare.