The editor of The Economist is currently on NPR. Responding to a question from a listener about Alan Greenspan's role in the Bush deficits, he deflected it by saying that Greenspan is just in charge of monetary policy, so it's really on Bush, but perhaps...
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While wandering Duck of Minerva, I happened to click on this, a book called The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Amazon summary reads:Was.
Roger Ailes responds to the hapless Lord Weisberg:Actually, there's plenty of evidence that Rove and Libby knew exactly what they were doing -- why else would they go to such.
I don't mean to be stubborn, but I do have one caveat to add to the important information that Harriet Miers endorsed the Coathanger Human Life Amendment. Some people have argued that it's not important because one can believe that the Constitution should be amended...
This is a really good piece, and I think the punchline is particularly important: That the nukes we went in to eliminate did not, in fact, exist is scandal of.
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Despite having never read any Harold Pinter, I'm convinced that his work is just political hackery in the form of art. Of course, this is the aesthetic.
Canada gets serious.The Canadian navy is drafting a plan to acquire two large amphibious assault ships capable of transporting thousands of troops and dozens of tanks and trucks across the seas. The idea, which merited a passing reference in last spring's defence policy statement, is...
I'm not the sort of man who avoids fried food. Nevertheless, I must admit to being really, really disturbed by Burger King's Chicken Fries. I haven't tried this abomination, but.
Alert reader Cathy points us to this report on the use of bioweapons in World War II:Ken Alibek, a former top Soviet bioweapons scientist, contends that an outbreak of tularemia.
That was impressive.And I can't agree with Tbogg; walking Pujols isn't a solution. Sanders is more likely to get a single than Pujols is to hit it 1200', or however far that ball went.
You know, somebody should write a dissertation about cooperative training between military organizations. In fact, somebody should pay some enterprising young scholar to write a book about it...Matthew Yglesias, commenting.
I think that Turkey should be part of the EU. My reasons? Asia Minor has been a critical part of the European world since ancient times, and Islamic Turkey since.