Last night Davida and I took in the Harlem Globetrotters-New York Nationals tilt down at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati. We didn't make it through the whole game, but I came away with the following questions:1. How much do the New York Nationals make?...
Author: Robert Farley
A guest post by LivyQuestion: is any major event not fodder for the online right's complaints about the insufficient patriotism of progressives? They are, to be sure, by and large.
The Washington Naval Treaty ended competition between the big naval powers in capital ships by invoking a ten year "naval holiday" in which battleship construction would be sharply limited. The.
Enjoy sharing the hotseat with Augusto Pinochet. In fairness, you made the General look like a rank amateur.... to pre-empt misunderstanding, I don't think his ouster was worth the bones of a single Prussian Grenadier, I'm sure that his execution will have no effect on...
Read Loomis' nice essay on Daniel Webster. Webster is among the most forgotten of the forgotten legislative titans of the 19th century, although I think that, outside of Lexington, even.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
In the Somalia comment section below, Eric Martin writes:Now, do I think that fear of further inflaming Muslim opinion through our actions in the Horn should be our overriding and primary concern? No.And clearly, an action such as the invasion of Iraq is going to...
Eric Martin links to Fred Kaplan's nice illustration of how reduced recruiting standards matter for military performance:The pattern is clear: The higher the score on the aptitude test, the better.
LGM, on the other hand, will happily endorse the first candidate to buy a Blogad on our site.Not really, but I wish someone would buy a damn Blogad. We've been.
I have to admit that I'm a little puzzled by Matt's dudgeon regarding the Ethiopia-Somalia war. The situation in Somalia has, for the last fifteen years, been just about as bad as one can imagine. The Islamist groups that control parts of Somalia seem far...
Tim Kurkijian on Tony Gwynn:Gwynn is the best hitter since Ted Williams. No.Tony Gwynn was about as good a hitter as one can be without substantial power or patience at.
Juan Cole has a nice discussion of Gerald Ford's foreign policy. Cole concludes that Ford's record was solid enough, relative to his contemporaries. Loomis does not fully concur, noting that.