Words, words, words: South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South’s new defence minister said. Kim Kwan-Jin issued the warning on Saturday, during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak officially appointed the retired four-star general as the new defence chief […]
Month: December 2010
This week’s Over the Horizon column is about inter-service rivalry: Because different services perform different missions, not all contribute equally to certain grand strategic tasks: The Royal
Thirty years ago tonight John Lennon was murdered by a mentally ill fan. By a simple twist of fate the story was broken by sportscaster Howard Cosell during a ABC Monday Night Football telecast. After
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins’s “support” for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. Certainly, we haven’t seen this before.
I confess that it’s Week Ten in the UC system, and as such, I’m swamped with the duties that make me a responsible teacher. But as a cancer survivor myself, I can’t let this pass.
George Will has introduced the latest effort to claim that, by definition, only liberal judges can be enagaged in judicial activism. This latest gloss on the more accurate “judgifying I don̵
I hope most of you following the Wikileaks story read Aaron Bady’s essay at zunguzungu last week, in which he examines two early essays attributed to Julian Assange and provides his explanation of Assange’s broader theory. It’s a sophisticated read with at last glance 567 comments – the sort of blog post political theorists will […]
Very sad news — despite the warnings, I never would have expected it to be so sudden. R.I.P. …amazingly, this remarkable group of excerpts from Althouse and her equally classy sycoph
I have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor today. However, while researching a short article about the British attack against the Italian fleet anchorage at Taranto I found this article, which contend
I haven’t blogged at all about the little issue of Julian Assange being wanted in Sweden for “sex crimes,” mostly because I find it completely irrelevant to the broader questions about the ethics of what he’s doing with his website and am annoyed by the narrative that suggests otherwise. However now that he’s actually been […]
Shorter Verbatim Robert Stacy “Emmett Till had it coming” McCain: “The problem here is not some theoretical abstraction about the nature of consent. No, the much larger problem appa
Needless to say, I don’t have much to add to Krugman and Rortybomb. The deal, once you accept that the cave-in on extending the Bush tax cuts was inevitable, was better than expected.