Month: August 2008
Lazy blogging Friday...This Michael Gordon piece on the "Shia Awakening" is as good as advertised, although Spackerman offers some caveats.David Axe reports that the Iraqi military is increasingly arming itself.
Dan Nexon reaches an unnecessarily modest conclusion at the end of a long post that includes, like, research and math and stuff:[W]hen it comes down to it, I don't really.
You would think that the latest defeat of Phil Kline would (unless you think the median national voter is more reactionary than the median voter in Kansas Republican primaries) give.
Do-do-do-dee-do, it's nice living here in the Capital of Baseball where you can check some scores and news before bed without being subjected to an ESPN-style 24-hour Brett Favre wankfest.
Picasso's painting memorializes the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War that killed several hundred civilians. At the time the incident shocked the world. Eight years later,.
Seven years in, the conviction of bin Laden's chauffeur/mechanic is apparently supposed to rank as one of the Bush administration's great victories. Assuming that victory includes developing a legal system.
Better luck at the track: For the second time in two years, voters in Kansas have handed a stinging defeat to Phil Kline, an anti-abortion crusader whose reputation was made.
Megan Carpentier:When he failed to wow them with his "drill here and drill now" energy plan, or his tax plan or his plan to be out of Iraq for sure.