Over at ID, I respond to some noodlings on baseball and naval force structure.
Author: Robert Farley
I'm in the midst of Charles Tripp's excellent A History of Iraq, and I'm curious about the Russian interest in Persian Gulf stability during the war. The Soviets played footsie.
Michael Cecire responds to my article about the sale of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Russia, but unfortunately misses most of the point: Certainly, there is no question.
This chart is certainly interesting: There are some no-brainers, including most notably the Republican preference for the PGA Tour. Nascar's position as a heavy Republican/medium turnout sport is also pretty unsurprising. I'm somewhat troubled by the strong Democratic skew of WWE, but not even mildly...
Cockcroft and Ravitz have a nice little article on the 30th anniversary of the first fantasy baseball league. The highlight of the story is the discussion of the best fantasy.
This is an interesting notion that is unlikely to happen in anything but a very limited sense: France has offered to create a joint UK-French nuclear deterrent by sharing submarine.
Seems like progress, if sanctions on Iran are your thing: President Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package of sanctions against Iran, administration officials said, but Mr. Hu made no specific commitment to...
In general, I feel the same way as Yglesias and Attackerman about the Venezuelan Embassy's aggressive spamming tactics. In this case, however, the Venezuelan ambassador's letter to the editor of.
Thiessen explains why the Smolensk crash sucks for Poland, but REALLY sucks for America: This weekend, in that same forest, much of Poland’s 21st century intelligentsia was wiped out as.
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DBTs tonight in Lexington!
Context makes it particularly tragic. A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other high-ranking officials crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning,.