Okay, I don't think even Dino Rossi would try this. I guess there are some differences between Washington and Kentucky. . .Calling the investigation into personnel practices in his administration a wasteful game of political gotcha, Gov. Ernie Fletcher tonight pardoned nine current and former...
Month: August 2005
Dave Noon closes the gap with Erik Loomis by staging a 394 point rally. Let's hope his marriage can survive. Farley clings desperately to 4th place. 1 New Mexico Alterdestiny,.
Eric Alterman excerpts his analysis of Chalres Murray's Losing Ground from What Liberal Media?. The first book showed the same emprical rigor that he would display in The Bell Curve:.
I hate to pick on Matt Yglesias again, but. . .Counterinsurgency tactics are also thought to have allowed the American military to essentially defeat the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam by the end of the 1960s but that country's government fell soon enough to...
Arrgh.A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.The.
This article has been getting a lot of interest, some of it good, some of it bad. Krepinevich wrote The Army and Vietnam, probably my favorite book about Vietnam. For.
It's times like this that call from the greatest song by one of the greatest albums in American popular music:What has happened down here is the winds have changedClouds roll in from the north and it started to rainRained real hard and it rained for...
I am satisfied, more or less.Ten years ago, I would have watched any epic on Rome, no matter how bad. Now, I like to think of myself as being a.
This is the song The Big Trunk stole from Bob Dylan. Hilzoy's stealin' it back.
Winston Churchill was rather fond of Oliver Cromwell. While he was First Sea Lord, Churchill repeatedly tried to recognize Cromwell by naming a battleship in his honor. Churchill settled on one of the Queen Elizabeth class, a squadron of powerful new fast battleships that would...
For some reason, I find this particularly stirring:Even though Saddam Hussein never posed a threat to Central America, and the national security of the United States is a concern only.
Went to a Lexington Legends game tonight. The Legends are the Houston Astros affiliate in the long season A-class South Atlantic League. I was mildly surprised that the game was.