I'll highlight the key word in the key grafs in Politico's latest drooling about a mythical proactive third party candidacy: Despite their seemingly left-wing orientation, the Occupy Wall Street protestors have explicitly avoided any partisan reference. They blame both parties for what many protestors call the...
Krugman on OWS: What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John.
A few more thoughts on the feasibility question... The short answer to "would a capture operation against al-Awlaki have been feasible?" is "Depends on the amount of risk and expense.
In this week's WPR column, I shill for Lockheed Martin: Given Congress' unwillingness to pursue additional revenue, the current Defense Department budget cannot be sustained. Cuts will be necessary, but the F-35B is the wrong place to look. The F-35B provides a virtually unique capability for transforming...
Ezra Klein's article on the stimulus and the devastated economy of 2009 is very much worth reading in its entirety. This is a key takeaway: But it is hard to.
Edward Copeland: I don’t know what to say about Tracy. Katharine Hepburn once compared him to a potato (she meant it as a compliment), and that’s pretty apt. He’s solid.
A good question from Charlie Savage's excellent account of the Awlaki killing: The memorandum is said to declare that in the case of a citizen, it is legally required to capture the militant if feasible — raising a question: was capturing Mr. Awlaki in fact feasible?...
Via Mother Jones is this superb site called Vulgar Army highlighting the use of the octopus in history to illustrate the evil power of corporations or other sites of power..
Look at this. Then read this.
Great two days, wasn't it? Three elimination games, all classics. I'll be very happy to make a donation to Planned Parenthood for my reverse-hedge bet with Howard. For the championship series, I'll take Brewers in 6 and Rangers in 7. Since this has come up a...
Al Davis, dead. I feel like I should be able to make a funny joke here, maybe something about Davis deciding that Satan would make a really fast wide receiver.
This document, which I think is a list of liquor wholesale prices from 1898, is quite interesting. You probably need to click on it to read it. First, what the.