Wittes, responding to Adam Serwer: In other words, Adam’s fear that “the president can have someone executed on his say-so based on mere suspicion of a crime” does not describe the claimed power properly. The better description would read: “The president has the power to...
Author: Robert Farley
Some lazy blogging on a Tuesday evening... IDF intergrating its submarine crews? Foreign militaries advising the US on the changes necessitated by expected DADT repeal. Biddle on politics and war..
Facebook has much to answer for.
David Kamp's "Lennon at 70!" is altogether craptastic. It did, however, remind me of Ian Macleod's vastly superior Snodgrass. "Hey, John!" It's a guy's voice, not Cal's after all. Sounds almost Liverpool. "Hey, wait a minute! Can't we just talk?" The voice rings in silence....
I'm voting for George Thomas.
Robert Kaplan says all manner of silly things, but because he says them in important places, we're supposed to listen: He or she who sits in Delhi with his back.
I went on the Alyona Show yesterday to discuss a book I haven't read: To elaborate a bit, I think that it's correct to say that the President could have de-escalated in Afghanistan if he'd been willing to expend the political capital necessary to do...
Since the NYT is revisiting Joe Wilson's June 2003 op-ed on his trip to Africa in search of uranium deals, I feel compelled to crank up on the Wayback Machine.
I'd hate to see that bastard Pollard go free, but it's hard to justify keeping him if there's even a chance that the release could save lives: “Officials in Jerusalem.
I receive more than a few e-mails that run roughly as follows: Sundays are a little less special without your Sunday focused posts, but the twins (and time spent on paid gigs) are more deserving of your attention, and your priorities are well in order....
The only modification that I'd make to this argument is that the responsibility does not wholly lie with Mao Zedong. The Great Leap Forward had the early support of a.
I have to say that I am shocked, shocked by the general level of evil and ill will demonstrated by Yankee partisans: A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection.