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Author: Robert Farley
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It's interesting to me that "must" is so big in the tag clouds of both the Bush and Obama NSS. "Must" implies a lack of freedom; it's much different than.
I don't want to interrupt Jeffrey Goldberg's hand-wringing, but this really stood out: Israel may face, in the coming year, a threat to its existence the likes of which it has not experienced before: A theologically-motivated regional superpower with a nuclear arsenal. Really? We're calling...
Haven't been blogging on the spill, because I know next to nothing about deep sea oil drilling or cleanup. I do want to echo a bit what John Cole wrote.
Happy Memorial Day from all of us to all of you. Celebrate with the beer and the baseball and the what not, but do give a thought to those who.
Among other things, they cut defense spending. In the United States, it's impossible to cut defense spending, because the world's reserves of whiskey/sexy/democracy/freedom depend utterly on the ability of the United States to egregiously outspend any rival or potential coalition of rivals by a factor...
Proposition: If a mad scientist undertook to create "Joey Votto" in a lab, the result could not look more like "Joey Votto" than the actual Joey Votto. Discuss.
Erik has been doing a fascinating series on animated Soviet propaganda. Check it out.
I'll confess, this is actually pretty amusing. Pathetic, yes, but amusing. Also, it appears that Kaus has found his constituency: Mickey Kaus has taken out papers to run against California Senator Barbara Boxer. What is so interesting about Kaus is that he takes positions that...
Absolute monarchy is an institution that humanity never should have given up: After serving 12 years in the position, Motley, the official White House Jester, was beheaded Tuesday after delivering.
Here's a thought: If you're going to make one of your main characters a Catholic priest, try to have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the.