Juan Cole does a better job with Reagan than I ever could.
Author: Robert Farley
After some controversial posts, I thought I would go with this. Griffey hit 496 yesterday, 497 and 498 today. It's remarkable that, even after losing two and a half seasons.
Hmm. Anything good about the Reagan legacy? We can say that he probably wasn't dumb enough to actually believe in supply-side economics. He understood the political value of tax cuts,.
I differ somewhat from Scott on the question of the draft. The draft does have a couple of positive aspects that he doesn't mention, but that I think are important. First, there's no real compelling evidence that a draft makes an army worse; a lot...
Via Atrios, a link to the Heritage Foundation page on missile defense. As Atrios cogently points out, Talking Points and Recommendations have full, and Facts and Figures is empty. This is.
Not entirely, but it looks like the Army presence there will be sharply reduced. Frankly, this is a bit overdue. There's no real compelling need to keep even skeletal forces in.
Matt Duss noted some creepy White House rhetoric.
Chalk it up to incompetence; I was so very sad that we couldn't get tickets to the showing of Zhang Yimou's "Hero" at SIFF. Then I read the synopsis, discover.
What's the deal with the Tenet resignation? I don't know. Via Kevin Drum, Mark Kleinman has an interesting theory. I'd certainly like to believe that story, although it's probably too good.
Media Matters takes apart Stephen F. Hayes argument that Bin Laden and Hussein had an operational relationship between 1990 and 2003. This one requires just a smidgeon of common sense. A connection between Bin Laden and Hussein is all that this administration needs. If one...
Nick Kristof thinks that communism in China ended on the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It's just taken the Chinese fifteen years to notice. So when will political change.
A reader writes: In all seriousness--Saddam Hussein thumbed his nose at the U.S., and for the sake of our credibility as a world hegemon, the U.S. was forced to stop.