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Month: June 2010
I wouldn’t say that Huckelberry Graham has replaced his buddy Joe Lieberman as America’s Most Odious Preening Politician. But he’s up there. This review becomes even funnier an
Nineteen, it seems. This story has evidently been making the rounds for a few weeks now, though I somehow managed not to hear about it. For background detail, the place to begin is with Thomas Russell
As part of my research project on what does and doesn’t count as a “human security” problem in the minds of practitioners, I’ve collected quite a few ideas about “neglected” human security issues that should get more attention. Among there are traffic accidents – something we tend to tolerate as a fact of modern life […]
This is sad: There is sad news though: birther queen Orly Taitz was viciously trounced in her effort to become California Secretary of State, losing the Republican nomination 3-1 in favor of former NF
There is, of course, no defense for Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic remarks, and in isolation the consequences are unobjectionable. But why Pat Buchanan remains a constant presence on The Serious TeeVee News is also hard to defend or explain, just as I have yet to understand why the adultery of President, Attorney General, and Associate Justice […]
Apologies for the light non-existent posting of late; I’m on vacation this week. Apparently, while I was away Glenn Reynolds became a complete hack! Oh wait… Anyway, I would be remiss if I
So it appears that David Brooks has penned an entire column premised on the observation that a century of social science has failed to provide satisfying explanations for why oil companies would cut c
North Korea probably didn’t need this: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the Chinese government to file a formal complaint. The shootings took place last Friday at the China-North Korea border by […]
This is one reason why Europeans understand war differently than Americans: An Allied bomb left over from World War II has exploded in Germany, killing three military engineers who were trying to defu
From Christpher Beam at Slate: A powerful thunderstorm forced President Obama to cancel his Memorial Day speech near Chicago on Monday—an arbitrary event that had no affect on the trajectory of Amer