This reminds me of a Simpsons episode:A woman in Germany who has spent 55 years with part of a pencil inside her head has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil when she was four. It punctured her cheek and part...
Author: Robert Farley
Heat indexes of 103 suck.That is all.
The Indian Navy is currently operating Viraat, a 48 year old former British carrier. To rectify this, they recently purchased a twenty year old Russian carrier. Unfortunately:Russia’s main military shipyard.
Montenegro emerged as a territorial unit around the 14th century. Although the Ottoman Turks conquered part of modern Montenegro, and Venice exerted considerable influence over the rest, the antecedents of the Montenegron state enjoyed at least nominal independence for most of the early modern era....
This post by Greg Djerejian on the now legendary O'Hanlon/Pollack op-ed is really indispensable; Greg takes them to task on their lack of hard evidence, reliance on impression, and apparent.
Gaius Verres was not, by the accounts we have left, a decent human being. Governorship of a Roman province came with certain prerogatives, including the expectation that the governor would.
UPDATE: Matt Sanchez reports that Beauchamp's Brigade Combat Team has issued a report indicating that Beauchamp's stories have been "proven false". Sanchez hasn't given any citation for this report thus far, and he's not exactly a reliable source (the con man allegations should be taken...
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Via Matt see Max Blumenthal's video of a rally for Christians United for Israel.Several months ago on Colbert, Zev Chafets made a funny comment about evangelical Christian support for Israel..
Loomis asks an interesting question:I have been thinking about some of the implications of Michael Moore's Sicko. Specifically, why is the United States the only nation in the developed world without some sort of equitable, government-funded health care? I am just wondering if we can...
John Noonan of Op-For, a graduate of VMI, has an interesting article in the Weekly Standard proposing that the math and science heavy curriculum at the service academies should shift.
The Times:The death of a marine in western Iraq brought the American military death toll to 74 so far in July, on course to be the lowest monthly figure this.