To expand a bit on Dave's post, let's note what's really important to the wingnutty among us.In a speech delivered a month after his reelection, Lincoln carefully surveyed the North's resources and manpower and concluded that the nation's wealth was "unexhausted and, as we believe,...
Author: Robert Farley
Japan withdrew from the London Naval Treaty in 1936. The chief Japanese negotiator, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, feared that concessions on the part of his negotiating team would lead directly to.
Ah, it's been a while. Mickey:Just a reminder: Rep. Henry Waxman, the aggressive incoming liberal chair of the House Government Reform committee--who is chiding his Republican predecessors for not investigating.
Ah, finally some sensitivity to Palestinian sentiment;"If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah," said Eli Yishai, one of Israel's deputy prime ministers and the leader of Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party...
The conventional Trident is as dead as Caesar's ghost. See my poorly conceived defense of the program here.
Brian Ulrich points out the controversy associated with the demarcation of the Afghan-Pakistani border. Unable to control more than a few square blocks of Kabul, the Afghan government is nevertheless.
Friday Cat Blogging... Frodo
Markus Wolf has shuffled off his mortal coil. In addition to having the best name ever for an elusive super-spy, Wolf placed over 4000 agents in the west, including most.
I have to hand it to him, Jonah manages to put together a great line every now and again. Were he not his mother's son, he might have amounted to.
Shorter Larry Kudlow: Democratic victory likely to lead to world economic depression.
The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair?Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear.
Every report I'm hearing indicates that voting in Lexington is going very, very slowly. No apparent reason, as there's no governor race in Kentucky and the local House race isn't.