My latest at the Diplomat examines the USAF's strategy with respect to the sequester and the Pacific Pivot: Last week, at the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference, questions about the impact of the sequester on the future of American airpower loomed large. The Pacific Pivot and...
I'm rather horrified by conservative reaction to the shutdown. Not just because it demonstrates their toddler-level pettiness, but also because it demonstrates, graphically, that conservatives don't understand what government is..
I'll take Jim Boeheim's assertions about how his players don't merit compensation seriously as soon as he agrees to be paid the average associate professor's salary and volunteers to coach.
The Republican Party's primary mission is to punish the poor.
Connecticut attorney Samuel Browning has distilled my book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) into the purity of its essence, via a flowchart. Matt Leichter has posted the chart on.
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Sure, Republican senators may be badmouthing Ted Cruz and yelling at him in private. But until they start badmouthing him to reporters using their own names instead of anonymously, they are still scared of him and it doesn't mean very much. Given how much he is...
Ralph Nader is applying the same tactics that helped 4 years of unified Democratic government in the late 70s produce pretty much nothing to trying to stop new libraries in.
I dunno whether the appropriate reaction to this is relief or surprise: With attention shifting to potential consequences of not increasing the debt limit, one House Republican said Thursday that.
Conservatives are lamely trying to put Democrats on the defensive by trying to force open popular parts of the government, like national parks. While I really want the national parks to be open (I'm going to be in Tucson next week for the first time in...
It's beginning to dawn on more Republicans that Senator Surly looks out for only one person, Surly: But as the government shutdown heads into day three, a number of Republican.
[caption id="attachment_49331" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="We must get satisfaction. How do you say "banana daiquiri"?"][/caption] The Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen: “We aren’t going to be disrespected,” said Indiana Rep. Marlin.