The Ohio state legislature is considering a law mandating that sex offenders use green license plates on their cars: "It won't prevent every crime," said Democratic state Rep. Mike DeBose, who co-sponsored the bill with Republican state Sen. Kevin Coughlin. "It's just a tool in...
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Christian at Defense Tech has a nice rundown on the "grounded Eagles" problem; if you hadn't heard, the USAF grounded its entire fleet of F-15s after a plane broke up.
In 1841, a previously unsuccessful British adventurer named James Brooke arrived in Brunei. Having served in the army twenty years before, Brooke had decided to purchase a schooner with his.
The Great War ended 89 years ago today; I continue to prefer concrete remembrance of that war to the abstraction that is Veterans Day. Depending on how you count, there are currently between 22 and 31 surviving veterans of the First World War, up to...
I was looking forward to taunting Ohio State fans in Cincinnati as the Ducks pulled 30 points ahead in the national championship game, then getting savagely beaten by said fans..
Via Drum, John McCain:"I don't know Mr. Kerik. I do know that I went to Baghdad shortly after the initial victory and met in Baghdad with (Ambassador Paul) Bremer and.
1923-2007.Mailer has been a relative blind spot among American novelists for me; I've only read The Naked and the Dead (on the subject I prefer James Jones) and Armies of the Night. Mailer, of course, is more (or less) than his books; he's also been...
Via Yglesias, China Hand has a pretty interesting post about China's influence over the Pakistani decision to crack down in Waziristan and at Lal Masjid:It was, after all, the provocative.
To add just a bit to Atrios' point, Centrism in the Blogosphere is the idea that people of all ideologies can come together to worship Glenn Reynolds.
This ain't no good. I blame the Democrats.
David Leonhardt:At only 27 of the 40 garages did mechanics tell Mr. Schneider that he had a disconnected battery cable, the very problem to which he had pointed them by.
Silly Matt; if Musharraf really is like the Shah, won't it just give us the opportunity to demonstrate that, were it not for Jimmy Carter, a few well placed bombs.