I think Tim Padgett is right; Pat Robertson couldn't have come up with a better gift for Hugo Chavez if he had been trying:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new best friend this morning: television evangelist Pat Robertson. With his astonishing call for the left-wing...
Author: Robert Farley
The most charming part of the University of Oregon campus is Pioneer Cemetery. The Cemetery was established in 1873 and the University grew around it. The tallest, and oldest, trees.
Matt has the single best line:WHO WOULD JESUS CAP?It worth taking a moment to remember that, whatever he is, Hugo Chavez is not a dictator. He's been elected four times,.
You thought only Japan and China had disputes over worthless islands? Canada is displaying some military muscle in the Arctic. . .Canada is sending its navy back to the far northern Arctic port of Churchill after a 30-year absence. The visit by two warships to...
Baseball Challenge standings, week 19:1 New Mexico Alterdestiny, E. Loomis 1855 2 Axis of Evel Knievel, d. noon 1750 3 Shangri-La Coelacanths, J. Daw 1689 4 Oregon Bearded Duck, R..
I like Juan Cole's Iraq withdrawal proposal, both for the seriousness with which is takes the potential consequences of a full withdrawal and for its detail. I also quite agree.
New York Times headline: G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since '01That would seem to imply that there were more deaths in 2001 than there have been this year. Otherwise, the headline could read "G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst of the War".That headline would...
I didn't know this:Detractors dismiss Discovery as a fundamentalist front and intelligent design as a clever rhetorical detour around the 1987 Supreme Court ruling banning creationism from curriculums. But the.
This strikes me as nonsense:The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference.
Responding to this post, Andrew Cox of the Roosevelt Institution points me to this Roosevelt Review article on gasoline taxes and their effects on conservation and revenue. A plausible case is made that the tax could be quite low and still achieve some important conservation...
Naming a battleship is more complicated that it might seem. A dreadnought battleship was more than just a weapon; it represented national power in its purest and most visible form..
I know, it's cliche. Nevertheless. . .Our foursome started at a tee on high ground, looking down a tree-lined swath of grass at the basket nearly 400 feet away. After.