The Tokyo fire raid was sixty years ago yesterday. 334 USAAF B-29s, each stripped of armament because the Japanese didn't have the gas to fuel interceptors, flew over Tokyo and dropped incendiary bombs on civilian neighborhoods. Somewhere between 80000 and 200000 were suffocated or burned to...
Robert Farley
The Taiwan-China problem doesn't seem that terribly complicated to me. Oddly enough, however, my students have no end of difficulty with it. The situation is relatively simple; China is dedicated.
Give Redbeard a read this morning. Here's an excerpt: Say you're Marty Miller and you strangled your wife. Now, that's murder, and you've made the muder rate go up in Lawrence,.
The subject of bullying has interested me for a very long time. Back in the day, I was victim much more than perpetrator; never let anyone tell you that "everyone has it hard" in junior high and high school. A few years back, some Washington...
Frequent and indispensable commenter Thad, among others, has given me a fair degree of grief regarding my recommendation of Tacitus.org. I haven't decided yet how much grief I deserve; some,.
Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the CPSU twenty years ago today. A lot changes in twenty years.
Demagogue via Mark Goldberg tracks down this exchange: O'REILLY: And I find it difficult to stand by and watch another Cambodia, another Rwanda, unfold. And I believe the United States has a responsibility here. BOLTON: Let me ask you this, Mr. O'Reilly. How many dead Americans...
Let me extend a cautious welcome to the return of Tacitus.org. Tacitus has been down for revamping for about four months, but missed Tacitus, its leader, for a period longer than.
In case David Brooks' effort to bathe and kiss the feet of Paul Wolfowitz have made you forget what a son of a bitch he is, make sure to read this from.
I share Matt Yglesias' mild surprise at Utah's spot at the top of the bankruptcy listings. I've never given the topic much thought, but I sort of expected that bankruptcy declarations would be higher in states with large urban populations. Lots of rich people live in cities,...
It's not often that a single sentence can capture most all of what's wrong with American journalism. Have you recently seen a phrasing that used more words to convey less.
There's been nothing more heartwarming to me over the past five years than the ill-fated marriage between Rick Neuheisal and the University of Washington Athletic Department. Neuheisal, as you may.