Shorter Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz: Robert Gates is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. Via Danger Room.
Month: April 2009
As part of our interminable but hopefully interesting series about judicial review, it may be worth considering Gerald Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope, invoked by Paul and now out in a.
According to the New York Times, the kidnapping of Captain Richard Phillips was resolved thusly:Just after dark on Sunday, snipers on the U.S.S. Bainbridge saw that one of the pirates.
As I blame Strunk and White for adding a year to my dissertation (and thus taking a year of my life), I'm deeply sympathetic with this argument.
Apparently, America's Moral Sage Rick Warren was too "exhausted" to appear on This Weak. This exhaustion seems to have been caused by his straining to come up with a good.
1. Captain Richard Phillips is freed after a brief firefight. Fabulous news, indeed. 2. Aaron Harang goes nine, strikes out nine, allows three hits and no walks against the Pirates..
Via DMZ, I learn that this year, the Metro shuttles that connected park and rides to Safeco field before and after Mariners games will no longer exist. The Mariners paid for some but not all of the cost and the riders paid three dollars. Congestion...
In addition to the other absurdities (and what shocking bias that the Emm Ess Emm would...cover a presidential campiagn!), you have to love what Reynolds considers worthy of quotation:Hundreds of.
Spencer handles the general idiocy of the Donnelly-Schmitt op-ed on the Gates defense budget...Schmitt and Donnelly argue for a continuation of most of the programs Gates is cutting, and do.
Annie Lowry:We should stop calling them pirates and start calling them something like "maritime terrorists," to end any remaining romanticization. It would be better if we simply thought about pirates in less romantic ways, rather than discarding the term altogether. To refer to them as...
This is one hell of an accomplishment. H/t to Joseph M.
The most exciting piracy event in recent memory happened to correspond with a period in which I had almost zero time to blog. A bit more on that later, of.