Worse than you could imagine.Every day the corpses pile up in the capital like discarded furniture — at curbside, in lots, in waterways and sewer lines; every day the executioners return. A city in which it was long taboo to ask, "Are you Sunni or...
Author: Robert Farley
A Mercury class battlestar, Pegasus entered service at some point between the First and Second Cylon wars. Her design represented a remarkable advance over that of the earliest battlestars, occupying.
The Royal Navy effort to outpace the Germans in dreadnought numbers severely taxed the Royal Treasury. The Admiralty reasoned that since it fell to the Royal Navy to protect the.
So I'll meet you at the bottom if there really is oneThey always told me when you hit it you'll know itBut I've been falling so long it's like gravity's gone and I'm just floating-Mike CooleyObservations from the October 21 Louisville DBT show;As most DBT...
Friday Cat Blogging...Nelson
The only way to enjoy Jonah's objectively pro-Islamofascist essay is as high comedy. While deconstruction and analysis might yield some mild entertainment, I think it's better just to accept that.
Dave and Gary both have both commented on Yglesias' post on George Kennan and the appreciation of foreign policy expertise at the beginning of the Cold War. I'd like to further note that the situation that developed in the diplomatic and intelligence communities regarding China...
Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the.
Charles Pierce reminds me of my favorite conspiracy, Operation Northwoods. In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of.
Yglesias asks the above question in regards to the decision to announce unilateral space hegemony at exactly the same time that we're trying to secure Russian and Chinese cooperation on North Korea. My short answer would be no; the elements of the administration committed to...
Fascinating.In "Steel Drivin’ Man," Scott Reynolds Nelson argues that the John Henry story was no tall tale, and Henry himself no myth. Historians have long speculated that the John Henry.
Why in the name of all that is holy did Slate hire Anne Applebaum to write a column called Foreigners: Opinions about events beyond our borders? Is she in some.