Month: May 2007
David Axe has the story of the Santa Fe, an Argentine diesel-electric submarine that fought off a swarm of British helicopters before succumbing:Cut off and incommunicado, the Santa Fe's crew.
He's a real class act:The setup: Yankees winning, 7-5, two out and two on, top of the ninth. Jorge Posada pops up to third. Howie Clark camps under it. Rodriguez.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Glenn Beck's Headline News ratings are in the rubbish bin, but I would have thought that at least 200,000 people across the country.
The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence.
The Times' Dave Leonhardt does a pretty decent job today of surveying Lou Dobbs' fact-free mental landscape (though it should be noted that nothing Leonhardt has to say couldn't have.
Hilzoy points to another in the endless series of empirical studies and professional testimonials indicating that torture is useless for the purpose of intelligence-driven interrogation. There's no value trade-off here;.
Twain, 1904 or 1905:O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms.
This is kind of interesting; I open up Fox News and find a front page article on a threatening new Russian ICBM that's apparently capable of defeating any US missile.