Back in early 2008, partially in preparation for my visit to Israel, I read Christopher Tyerman's God's War: A New History of the Crusades. I had not previously been familiar with anything more than the broad outlines of the Crusades, including the seizure of Jerusalem,...
Month: March 2010
I largely agree. After buying and watching all five seasons of The Wire last year, I struggled with an internal debate: was it better than Homicide Life on the Street?.
More please: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and.
It always intrigues me to be told that by thinking differently from the herd (a hallmark of progressivism) I must actually be a faux progressive. Recently, for challenging my government’s use of racial classifications on the census form, I have been called a selfish, irresponsible,...
Some damage is hard to fix. The UK government needs to be "less deferential" towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have.
But honestly, because he's proven it's possible to be gainfully employed in academia and functionally illiterate, I can't even manage a few moments of schadenfreude. Remember that post I wrote.
I had assumed that everyone had been eliminated from the LGM Tourney Challenge, but apparently this was not the case. The two current leaders are M. Strausz's Fort Worth Barnstormers, and K. Adams Know-Nothings. Strausz has Syracuse winning, which means he's probably done for all...
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally.
"Just imagine how incredibly dangerous that would be, for me, for the populace of wherever that is..."
South Korea has reportedly ruled out a North Korean attack as the cause of the sinking of the Cheonan. Initial speculation that North Korea might have sunk the ship had spooked Wall Street on Friday. Share prices dipped partly on geopolitical concerns, and the won...
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law..