There are lots of reasons why aspiring foreign policy students should consider the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce over the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. One of the most important is that the administration of the University of Kentucky is consistently...
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Friday Daddy Blogging... Elisha and Miriam
Latest account of the raid on Bin Laden is a good read. Two thoughts: While it's best to view any account of a raid like this with skepticism, I.
Interesting article on junior faculty and exercise: In the quest for tenure, physical activity is the first casualty, according to a recent study of Canadian assistant professors that its authors believe applies to junior faculty at institutions in the United States as well. The analysis,...
My WPR column this week is an extension of this post from last week: What has been absent thus far, however, has been the strategic use of airpower: airstrikes designed.
Brief addendum to Scott's post, which Brad P. also linked: Guerena, who joined the Marines in 2002 and served two tours in Iraq, was killed just after 9 a.m. May 5..
Farewell to Harmon Killebrew. Not unexpected, of course. Killebrew wasn't on the list, but see Jonathan Bernstein's list of the greatest living baseball players. My main quibble would be at catcher, where I think Ivan Rodriguez certainly deserves an audience alongside Bench and Piazza.
This is unacceptable: Specialty license plates can be seen all over Kentucky, from Nature's Finest, to the Masonic Order, to Transylvania University. Many want to show their support for things.
Not Vin Mazzaro's day.
Gilles Savary's* entry is a strong early candidate for the worst possible commentary on the DSK case, via Gopnik: To tell the truth, everybody knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine; what distinguishes him from plenty of others is his propensity not to hide it....
Matt Duss and I diavlog about domestic sources of foreign policy, Bin Laden's porn, and large Presidential candidates:
And so we have the season 13 premiere of Law and Order: SVU: The head of the International Monetary Fund was removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes.