Yeah, I'm pretty much with Neil; cheering for a Green candidate to sabotage Cantwell is one of the dumbest things to come down the pike since... oh, well, since some people thought voting for Ralph Nader would actually produce a progressive outcome in this country....
Author: Robert Farley
In Washington D.C. now, for the first time in my life. Some people seem shocked to find that one could get a Ph.D. in political science without stepping foot in.
I've wondered about this, too. In Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair Horne suggested that Baron Hausmann did a grave aesthetic disservice to Paris in the 1850s. But, as Mr. Trend.
The Royal Navy followed up its outstanding Queen Elizabeth class battleships with five of the "R" class. Royal Sovereign was second of the class, carrying 8 15" guns, displacing 27500 tons, and capable of 21 knots. Royal Sovereign and her sisters were a step down...
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?Ambassador de Sadesky: It was.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
One has to wonder what the point of this editorial is. Carter and Perry assert that the United States ought to attack North Korea in an effort to prevent the launch of the Taepodong II ballistic missile. What this would accomplish is unclear. One does...
Three weeks ago Davida and I visited Ashland, the Lexington home of Henry Clay. As an historical site the estate was quite interesting, although the original house had been torn.
This is easily the best thing that Jonah Goldberg has ever written. The highlights:What was once Kinsley's contrarian instinct has been dogmatized into official corporate policy. Weisberg has admitted as.
If I were a terrorist, and I thought that an amnesty for former insurgents would probably damage the insurgency and help stabilize the Iraqi state, then something I might do is kidnap a couple of American soldiers and torture them to death in the hope...
All was going well until I got to Chicago. O'Hare is a nasty airport; too crowded, too noisy, way too hot, poorly laid out. I did manage to get my.
Armchair Generalist, responding to Tony Snow's claim that 2500 "is a number":No, Tony. It's not a number. "No. 2500" had a face, family, and friends. Not that he was one.