By now you've probably heard that South African police opened fire on striking platinum miners, killing 34 and wounding 78. The miners were renegades from the corporatist National Union of Mineworkers and were attempting to gain rights for a new, more militant union called the...
Month: August 2012
Bill Galston. See also. In addition to the foolish idea that it would be possible to reach a grand bargain if only the Obama campaign would unilaterally disarm and refuse.
For this week's Forestry Friday, I want to talk about the town of Valsetz, Oregon. Valsetz was a tiny company town in the Oregon coast range founded in 1919. It.
On this week's Foreign Entanglements, Matt and I jabber about Paul Ryan's foreign policy, among other things:
Greenwald, in the midst of an angry screed: In a book critiquing the “terrorism expert” field, Jackson argued that “most of what is accepted as well-founded ’knowledge’ in terrorism studies.
The Times Room for Debate section seems like it would be a good idea--choose a question and get smart people to present different views. But so often the questions are.
Kevin Levin with an excellent short essay on the evolving relationship between the South and the Confederate flag, where he notes both the connection between the Stars and Bars and resistance to segregation and that the South has become increasingly less tolerant of displaying the...
This is damn fine beer. That is all.
Can someone find me a single black person who isn't a paid Republican token who was offended by Joe Biden's comments? Didn't think so. How anodyne were his words? Here's.
Stuff that I didn't get a chance to blog: Dave Mustaine continues to justify the hiring of Kirk Hammett. Chinese answers to the question "Why did the Soviet Union fall?" Drones that can capture rather than kill. The evolution of Japanese defense strategy. Russia lays...
Yes, it seems that when you end up with a billion dollars of your customers'.
I know that there are bigger issues at play in Syria than destroyed old buildings, but this makes me very, very sad. “The Assad government’s primary concern is to destroy.