"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."Now that we're getting to the nub on Iran, let's talk a bit about one...
Month: January 2006
The Wilton Park experience was nothing less that outstanding for me, despite the fact that I suffered from lingering jet lag and a nagging cold for the entire week.I was.
The discussion here at Wilton Park has not made me any more optimistic about the commitment of the US Army to stability operations. The US continues to seem more committed.
USS Utah (BB-31) was the sixth dreadnought battleship commissioned by the US Navy. She entered service in August of 1911. Utah and her sister Florida were the first two US battleships to use steam turbines, although some later battleships (New York, Texas, and Oklahoma) would...
Congratulations to frequent commenter gmack and the Steelers. I was meeting someone for lunch and had to leave after halftime, but decided to record the rest just in case it.
Eventheliberal Washington Post op-ed page has come out in favor of the confirmation of Sam Alito. And, also unsurprisingly but even more annoyingly, it does so in classic Fox News.
I was pleased to discover via iocaste that the WSJ has made this outstanding article available online. Make sure to click through--there's a detailed explanation with a handy chart, but some choice grafs:Programs that provide free or deeply discounted drugs for the elderly and the...
Sam Alito has given a very helpful interview to the fine folks at Fafblog!:FB: Now back around then you also wrote a memo saying the Attorney General can't be sued.
Mahablog is on the case.
According to the John Miller, guilty people behind bars claiming they're innocent is a "much bigger problem" than innocent people being convicted. I know I just said that I have more respect for conservatives who wear their contempt for civil liberties proudly, but maybe I...
I very much enjoyed Glenn Greenwald's merciless dismantling of Jonah "Search warrant? Scope requirements? Who cares?" Goldberg. And yet, in a perverse way, I have a certain respect for the.
Last night while drinking heavily, a Bloquiste and I mused about a few decisive moments in Quebec history. The discussion boiled down to two major counte-factuals. In the first, the.