This story, indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging.From the standpoint of both the demands of justice and the...
Month: November 2008
Hopefully Alaska's voters will be shown to have made the decision before the Senate has to...
Innovative: Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says a two-month Navy shutdown over Christmas has been ordered to give staff a rest as the Navy continues to grapple with staff shortages. The.
I suppose this means that James Dobson will be focusing not quite so hard as usual on (messing with other people's) families. It's obviously an unfortunate thing when 200 people lose their jobs, no matter whom they work for; worse, it looks like most of...
NYT:A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China’s fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the United States military.
Ahem.In an official lunch with foreign diplomats, Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson shocked neighboring Nordic countries with inviting Russia to take use of the strategically important airbase.Foreign diplomats hardly believed.
Obama deserves to be crowned Jesus if he can pull this off:I think any sensible person would say that if you've got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there's no clear decisive...
I think this article by Jon Cohn is very important. There are two points here that I think should be emphasized. First, I do think that there's a tendency to.
This does not seem to have been a...smooth rollout of their new technology.
I certainly respect E.J Dionne far more than I do Will Saletan. But it must be said that his new column has a pretty strong whiff of the "originating policies pro-choicers have been advocating for many decades" routine that Saletan has patented. Apparently, the solution...
George Washington composed his Farewell Address in cooperation with James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. The process took roughly five years, as the initial text was prepared in anticipation of a.
All-star commenter IB says:OT (but appropriate to a previously stated position of this blog): Another smart Sunday piece by Frank Rich.(Noted because: About a week ago, someone (SL, I think,.