Month: August 2011
My WPR column this week builds on Sunday's Libya post: One of the crucial military questions that emerged from the campaign involves the effectiveness of airpower. With one long ground.
I think this comment from David Mizner -- whose excellent novel you should check out -- gets to the heart of the issue: This argument — could President Obama have.
In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power.
R.I.P.
Via Ares, a very interesting breakdown of strike sorties over Libya. The US had a very high percentage of the early strike sorties, but as you can see that has.
Most academics at research universities engage in two kinds of teaching: the general edification of undergraduates, and the professional training of graduate students who, in theory at least, are being.
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery..
Some items of note from the last week: 1. More than 90% of 62,000 United Food and Commercial Workers in southern California grocery stores voted to authorize a strike because.