Matt has some observations on The Empire Strikes Back. I largely concur. From the same source, some exhaustive research concluding that the Empire would easily destroy the United Federation of Planets.
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Lots of interesting stuff on voting today. In Ohio, the Republicans are trying to get new voter registration thrown out due to a technicality involving paper weight. In Florida, Publius has the.
We need to revisit part of LTC Smith's Weekly Standard article: Historical apologists say that the Japanese were "forced" to attack us because we were strangling their trade in Asia. Sound.
See Laura Rozen, via Kevin Drum, for the November 2001 State Department map showing Al Qaeda activity. Guess what country doesn't show any signs of Al Qaeda. State Department is full of communists, anyway. By the way, the comments count at the bottom of each post...
Lieutenant Colonel Powl Smith has an article in the latest Weekly Standard, alluded to below by DJW. I will reserve judgement as to whether LTC Smith actually believes the argument that.
Matt Yglesias applies a proper beating to Max Boot when the latter tries to compare Bush with Lincoln: This would be more plausible if Lincoln had launched the Civil War on.
Via Paperwight, Tristero has a nice post on the John Birch Society. Maybe we don't hear so much about them, he suggests, because their platform has become that of the modern Republican Party. The John Birch Society arose in the late 50's and rapidly grew to considerable...
There have been a number of interesting observations regarding libertarian hawks in the last few days. Matt Yglesias points out that many who consider themselves libertarians actually aren't, and thus can't.
My religious commitment to Law and Order has waned in recent years due to a number of factors. I hate Elizabeth Rohm, and wish she would die. I don't care.
Professor Cole is on a roll: But I have a hard time rushing to Yusuf Islam's defense because I never forgave him for advocating the execution of Salman Rushdie in 1989. He endorsed Khomeini's "fatwa" or death edict against Rushdie for the novel, Satanic Verses....
Sully is having a real hard time. He's not an idiot, meaning that he can't believe that the project in Iraq is going well. On the other hand, he's arrogant.
One of Juan Cole's finest: President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country. What would America look like if.