Victor Davis Hanson (http://victorhanson.com/index.html) is an brilliant scholar and essayist. (Look at the list of the books he's written for one thing.) Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine (http://www.buzzmachine.com/) is actually a liberal, it's just that he was there at Ground Zero on 9/11 and tends to be pro-war as a result (his focus is on the effect of politics etc on the media, eg, Howard Stern). The Belmont Club (http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/) features incisive military commentary.

I don't know if you read the Iraqi blogs? A Free Iraqi (http://afreeiraqi.blogspot.com) just went on hiatus but has an archive ("I was not living before the 9th of April and now I am, so let me speak!") Also Iraq the Model (http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/) is good for a unfiltered view of the situation, for example the August 9th post with photos of Iraqi women demonstrating for equality (http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/08/and-protests-for-civil-constitution.html). The blogroll at Iraq the Model is worth exploring also.