Managed to acquire a copy of the Navy Professional Reading Program List. Here’s a selection:Junior Enlisted:Lincoln on Leadership, Donald PhillipsEnder’s Game, Orson Scott Card (!)Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein (!?!)The Kite Runner, Khaled HosseiniA Passage to India, E.M. Forster Petty Officer:Shackleton’s Way, Margot Morrell, Stephanie CapparellBilly Budd, Herman MelvilleNot a Good Day to Die, Sean NaylorThe […]
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Shorter Verbatim Althouse (in comments): “What you need to know is that numerous bloggers who hate me have posted telling people to go vote for TMV. Before that happened I was way ahead.”
Ted Nugent — rock guitarist, walking phallus and self-parodying right-winger — turns 58 today. He shares his birthday with the legendary Alvin York, who led a devastating attack on a nest
Hadley Arkes, one of the pro-life movement’s most prominent intellectuals, has an article in First Things about the upcoming “partial birth” abortion decision. It starts off strangely with the claim that “people on both sides seriously expect the Court will use its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.” My question–such as who? I read as […]
Today, I am sad to remind everyone, is the sixth anniversary of the grotesque and consequential Bush v. Gore decision, which was delivered in all its steaming feculence by five activist judges who sub
From Powerline: My view is that if winning means having a country in which Iraqis don’t kill one another in large numbers, then we’re unlikely to win any time soon. However, if winning mea
Although I had been intending to ignore the passel of right-wingers with one actual moderate that comprised the Weblog Awards’ “best centrist blog” category, I must shift course and heartily endorse Ezra’s endorsement. Vote early, vote often! …the fine folks at Unfogged also endorse The Moderate Voice.
I acknowledge that there are good reasons not to support Al Gore in the ’08 primaries, and the question is looking increasingly moot anyway. I would like to think, however, that one questionR
Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser and commenters. What I enjoy most is the men who, if women who start thinking that they have the right to deny sex if they don’t feel like it and similar crazy feminist gu
If this, this, and this are any indication, Ann Althouse wasn’t held enough as a child. Though with insightful commentary like this, I don’t see why she has to beg people to vote for her: One thing I didn’t think about, however, and wish I’d put in the original post, is that plenty of fat […]
I discuss, and (support it) here, and Ezra joins the discussion here. Having slept on it, I think that, if anything, I was too qualified. I was sort of making the same mistake that some liberals who w
The concept explained. And my contribution this week: After a nice warm bath and a blow dry, Tony Blair gazes hopefully at his master, who sometimes rewards him with a biscuit.