I’ve been reading Pournelle for more than 30 years. He’s very much an old-school conservative. He is about the only person who was against going into Iraq from the beginning who I respect, and his alternative program made a lot of sense.
He still writes what was arguably the first blog on the Internet, though he didn’t call it that (he hates the word), and I still know of none better.
Highly recommended reading. It’s a great current events overview. There are two pages you need to hit, the Current View, and the Mail from his readers.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/currentview.html
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/currentmail.html
By the way, I am a Platinum subscriber to Pournelle, and I’m a monthly contributor here. These are the only two sites I regularly contribute to directly. That ought to tell you something about the high regard in which I hold his site. Like FR, it is not a pretty site, but it is quality information (and even wisdom) dense.