The town of Oregon City is by no means progressive. Although nominally a suburb of very liberal Portland, it lies at the edge of the metropolitan area, on the border between very leftish urban Oregon and very conservative rural Oregon. Among Portland suburbanites Oregon City...
Author: Robert Farley
A hearty welcome back to Alterdestiny, which was felled for three weeks by unknown and frustrating technical problems.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Chilling. And I thought that the biggest problem with Canadian coins was that they were annoyingly similar to ours, yet wouldn't be accepted by vending machines.In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it...
The British Army? Not so much on the surging. According to Reuters, Britain will withdraw 2700 of its 7200 strong contingent by May 31. British forces are concentrated in southern.
If you believe that the "surge" will be effective, and if you believe that "rules of engagement" are the primary problem with the operation in Iraq, how can you not conclude that President Bush and his administration are among the most inept blunderers ever to...
Jason Zengerle's commentary on the TAP/Joe Klein feud is essentially vacant, but there's one paragraph that deserves some additional scrutiny, if only as a contribution to the "saying nothing in.
I have finally finished my syllabi for Defense Statecraft and East Asian Security. This is the first time I've taught the latter, so it's a bit rough. I went with.
Well, the "Ethiopia would have attacked anyway" defense of US support for the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia is looking worse all the time, which leaves the "it was a good idea" justification. Apologies are due Matt and Brad. This justification defense is a good deal...
The 283 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who did not vote for Bert Blyleven aren't evil, or even necessarily stupid. They simply know nothing of baseball. In.
Brad Plumer writes:If the United States government had a bigger Army at its disposal, it would view the military as the solution to an even greater number of foreign policy.