Randy Paul helpfully supplements the NYT's list of important dates in the life of the late Augusto Pinochet:September 1974: Has DINA, his secret police organization plant a bomb in the car of General Carlos Prats, his predecessor in Buenos Aires. The bomb kills General Prats...
Month: December 2006
While Augusto Pinochet lived decades longer than any reasonable human being would have hoped, we might take some small comfort in noting that his mighty, fascist heart disintegrated on the.
Augusto Pinochet, 1915-2006...Pinochet used to be a litmus test for right and center-right thinkers; if you considered Pinochet a "complicated" figure, possessed of certain vices but laudable for his understanding.
State of the art battleship armament in the late 19th century involved a mix of large and small caliber weapons. It was believed thatthe higher fire rate of the smaller weapons would make up for their lack of penetrative capacity. Indeed, some argued that large...
Charles Bukowki opens my favorite poems, "The Shoelace," with the following grim observation:a woman, atire that's flat, adisease, adesire: fears in front of you,fears that hold so stillyou can study.
In an article about China assuming its place at the table of great powers comes this passage:In the past several weeks China Central Television has broadcast a 12-part series describing.
Sullivan:But let me say this in defense of Althouse. She is at least conceding that the shameful treatment of Padilla is worth discussing. And her defense of the sadism is about as plausible as it will ever get. She sees there is an important principle...
Huh. Reading Greenwald and Drum makes me wonder whether the smart political move for the Democrats isn't to wholly embrace the ISG report, count on the assumption that the Bush.
In a Congressional Quarterly piece flagged by Ygelsias, we're reminded that racism's conceptual grammar is quite mobile:If President Bush and some of his closest associates, not to mention top counterterrorism.
From yesterday's press conference with the Poodle:Q Mr. President, the Iraq Study Group described the situation in Iraq as grave and deteriorating. You said that the increase in attacks is unsettling. That won't convince many people that you're still in denial about how bad things...
I have a post at TAPPED about Jeffrey Rosen's touting of John Roberts's would-be "centrist" justification for upholding "partial-birth" abortion legislation that should clearly struck down based on the current.
Chuckle.I for one understand that Christmas is the only thing standing between me and my lifelong dream of euthanizing my relatives, grabbing their inheritance, buying lots of drugs, getting a.