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Month: July 2009

This is the sixth installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferSecond World, Parag KhannaThe Accidental Guerrilla, David KilcullenThe Limits of Power, Andrew BacevichLimits of Power is Andrew...

So, to be clear, Boalt Hall's favorite tenured radical used procedural, legal, and factual errors...to justify torture and arbitrary executive power. (Often, for example, legislative provisions are ambiguous and have.

Friendly Fire in South Ossetia War

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Via FP, a new independent Russian report indicates that three of the six Russian aircraft lost during the South Ossetia War were shot down by friendly fire. The report also suggests that cooperation between Russian ground and air forces was less than fruitful. While the...

Don’t Smoke ’em if You Got ’em?

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This is bullshit.  I'm thinking if there ever is a time when it is OK, permissible, socially acceptable, and indeed, preferable to smoke, it's when you're bloody getting shot at or bombed.I say that as an unrepentant, happy smoker who has been a bitter and...
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