Last post was getting a little clogged...The NYT is reporting a bunch of interesting stuff, not least this:The de facto government of pro-Russian Abkhazia asked United Nations peacekeepers to depart.
Your morning Confrontation in the Caucasus (somebody tell me if CNN picks up that catchy alliteration, so I can sue) update:Georgia claims to have shot down ten Russian aircraft; the.
Further thoughts on the developing crisis...Whose Fault?In an earlier post I suggested that the question of moral righteousness in this war is muddled; both Georgia and Russia have plausible justice.
For your consideration, here is a list of the "evidence" Peggy Noonan assembles to sustain her argument that "things are shifting" in the 2008 campaign:McCain's YouTube videos have now received.
I was an Edwards supporter early on, so I find this particularly disturbing. In an ideal world I agree this would be a private affair in every sense, but did.
I'm not sure what's more amusing about this; the notion that Barack Obama is the Antichrist, or the idea that the plots of the Antichrist (and presumably by extension the.
Yesterday, Tom Maguire pointed to what he claims is an old defense of the "conventional wisdom" on the exclusion of Saint Casey from the 1992 Democratic convention (although, in fairness,.
[I would redirect people towards this post (a more recent analysis) and this one (a roundup of the morning's news and analysis]We're likely to here quite a lot from the.
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