Exceedingly disappointing to see Rob Neyer pick the wrong side on Colby Lewis' choice to take a game off to participate in the birth of his second child: What if we're talking about your favorite NFL team's quarterback? Do you want him skipping Sunday's big...
Author: Robert Farley
There are many ways to respond to the fact that The Shawshank Redemption is ranked #1 on the IMDB Top Movies chart. This is one of my favorites, because it.
I have also been hearing some arguments to this effect: Let’s make something clear, the civil war in Libya will not end in a stalemate. The French will likely intervene.
See Loomis on Robert E. Lee. Also worth quoting: The conventional wisdom holds, for example, that Lee disdained secession, but once his state took that step he was duty bound to follow. But these documents show that he was not actually opposed to disunion in...
Barack Obama is a Somali pirate. See also.
My column this week is on early lessons from Libya: The bombing of Libya was supposed to teach the region's autocrats that the international community would not stand by and.
Awesome. The first question the British will face is “Whose army?” For they will find themselves advising a ragtag rebel force that cannot even agree on who its top officer is, amid squabbling between two generals who both come with unsavory baggage. The dysfunction was...
I'm an atheist, and this isn't really what I hear when I listen to people debate theology. Indeed, I quite enjoy theological debates when they're held at a level that.
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the US supported invasion of Cuba, an operation which solved that Castro problem once and for all. In support of my COIN seminar this.
This is one of those things that is disappointing, but not at all surprising: "You would hope that they would be spending a lot more on the schools in Pakistan than they would on book-related costs," says Borochoff. "Why doesn't Mr. Mortenson spend his own...
How much would somebody have to pay you to watch Atlas Shrugged?
Something else I've discovered; when "Come here, Miriam" results in "No no no!", I ask "Bring me that [book/toy/cup/etc.]," with which she dutifully complies, inadvertantly bringing herself as well. Once.