Back in 1982, James Bamford published The Puzzle Palace, which opened the National Security Agency up to a previously unknown level of scrutiny. Bamford showed that the NSA had operated with virtually no public oversight since its inception, and that this led to predictable outcomes, including...
Month: December 2004
Council Bluffs, Iowa- The old man's girlfriend likes to keep boxes of old magazines, including Time, Life, Look, and so forth. I had been led to believe that Look was.
I knew that nothing good could come from my purchase of Master and Commander, the first book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. I would either hate it, making the book a.
Cliff May on the heart of a neoconservative: I’d argue that the term “neo-conservative,” at this point, merely means someone who (1) believes American power can be a force for good, and (2) that encouraging democracy and freedom in the Middle East is both possible...
Important story on Argentina in today's NYT. But three years after Argentina declared a record debt default of more than $100 billion, the largest in history, the apocalypse has not arrived..
from your friends at Lawyers, Guns & Money. Have fun, be safe, and never forget that the Yankees suck ass.
Via Laura Rozen, a story that just hasn't received much play here: The Israeli-American crisis over the sale of an advanced technology weapons system to China has also turned into an Israeli-Chinese crisis in the wake of an American demand that Israel not return to the Chinese...
Three days, four flicks. In order: The House of Flying Daggers: I was a touch disappointed. I certainly can't agree with Redbeard's assessment; this film was far weaker than Hero, which.
Today's clue is that I'm sitting at home in my pajamas watching oral arguments before Washington State Surpreme court. I just learned about the fascinating way in which court of.
It would be fair to say that we at LGM may use the "Worst. . . Ever?" form a bit too liberally. Indeed, I think I'm probably more guilty of this than either Scott or Dave. The "Worst. . .Ever" form comes, of course, from...
Juan Cole points out that, despite the best efforts of the Right to argue otherwise, there is no "eternal" enmity between Jews and Muslims. For entire centuries in the late.
David Edelstein is a better man than I am. You'll hardly be surprised to hear that Joel Schumacher's film of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (Warner Bros.).