This afternoon I'll be on Midrats with EagleOne and CDR Sal. We'll talk politics, strategy, AirSea Battle, what not, and so forth. Coincidentally, I just read this excellent Harold Winton article on Army-Air Force collaboration 1973-1990. Key points: The relative cohesion and strength of the Army-Air...
Claire McCaskill's opponent, ladies and gentlemen: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If.
When judges stop being polite and start getting real: Judge Lucy Koh couldn’t take it anymore after seeing a 75-page rebuttal witness list from Apple in court Thursday, saying that.
Apparently working for Chuck Schumer is like having your most irritating busybody relative for a boss. Only when it's your boss his intrusions into things that are none of his inherent concern are not merely irritating but highly inappropriate. It looks like I'm going to need...
As an addendum to yesterday's post, I think K-Drum is conceding way too much here: There are plenty of things to dislike about Ryan's 2013 plan, but the truth is.
Where your tuition dollars may be going these days: hiring expensive bureaucrats to ensure that your student newspaper has more proactive strategic dynamism and less journalism. In particular, one assumes,.
I had a bit of a silent comedy fest last night. I watched Just Neighbors with Harold Lloyd, Hustling for Health with Stan Laurel, and Kid Auto Races at Venice, Calif., with Charlie Chaplin. A few notes: 1. I liked Just Neighbors the least and have...
By now you've probably heard that South African police opened fire on striking platinum miners, killing 34 and wounding 78. The miners were renegades from the corporatist National Union of.
Bill Galston. See also. In addition to the foolish idea that it would be possible to reach a grand bargain if only the Obama campaign would unilaterally disarm and refuse.
For this week's Forestry Friday, I want to talk about the town of Valsetz, Oregon. Valsetz was a tiny company town in the Oregon coast range founded in 1919. It was owned by the Boise Cascade corporation (after a couple of earlier owners). Company towns aren't...
On this week's Foreign Entanglements, Matt and I jabber about Paul Ryan's foreign policy, among other things:
Greenwald, in the midst of an angry screed: In a book critiquing the “terrorism expert” field, Jackson argued that “most of what is accepted as well-founded ’knowledge’ in terrorism studies.