Tim Blair links to an Observer article that claims Saddam and either Uday or Qusay was killed in an airstrike on a convoy in western Iraq. Here’s to hoping, but I’d like to see confirmation from a U.S. newspaper not based on 43rd Street in Manhattan.

Scholar, blogger, and all-around great guy (see what a beer and some good career advice will buy you in praise) Dan Drezner has moved to drezner2.blogspot.com due to certain unspecified Blog*Spot problems at the old site, as an interim move before ditching Blogger completely. Update your blogrolls accordingly.

Bizarrely enough, “new” posts seem to be appearing on a somewhat random basis at the old site. There’s a ghost in the machine somewhere, methinks.

Now he's back at the original site…

Thanks to the folks at OxBlog for their shout out! Hopefully, however, my days as a graduate student are drawing fairly rapidly toward a close…

James Joyner at OTB indulges in a little POL 101 lecture on what James Madison was talking about in Federalist 10. I’ll have to remember to pilfer some of it when I next update my Federalist handout.