...allegedly starting in 2 minutes. Can be watched here. To be fair and balanced, not every political figure in the United States thinks this is a big deal. ...Targeted op by Americans. ..."OBL was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murder of Muslims." ...the...
10:17 POTUS will be addressing the nation at 10:30 tonight unexpectedly; no official word on what his announcement is about. 10:34 Latest from Twitter: RT @jacksonjk: House Intelligence committee aide.
Excellent, detailed post on the role of slavery in the Confederate Army. One of the great unmentioned tragedies of the Civil War was the conscription of poor Southern whites into.
There's a good piece in the NYT this morning on how law schools hand out merit scholarships to significantly more students than will end up being able to retain them, given traditional law school grading practices (Paul Caron has a useful summary of the article here)....
If the methodology shows JFK as being substantially to the left of LBJ or FDR, it's pretty limited. Or, really, it works better for members of Congress than presidents --.
Cameron McWhirter on the impact of the Mortenson scandal: Grass-roots nonprofits across the country now find themselves under intense scrutiny because of the Mortenson scandal. Many are considering going to.
While there was a wedding of some apparent note yesterday on the island where I work and usually live, more interesting are the series of elections on May 5. These include local elections, both the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, and the second ever UK-wide referendum....
Excellent roundup of the 2011 election from Tom Slee. My additional comment is that the rise of the NDP/fall of the Liberals is another example of self-congratulatory liberal hawks being.
I don't know if this means that Daniels is running, but it certainly confirms that he's an asshole.
Friend of the blog Jason Sigger is moving onwards and upwards. Unfortunately, this means that Armchair Generalist will be shutting down. DHS' gain is our loss; Sigger has long been a vital progressive voice on hard security affairs. Also, the green dragon graphic is absolutely perfect...
Last night I was on the Alyona Show, talking differences between Syria and Libya.
"People should just chill. He's done a lot of good in this world." This was my daughter's general reaction to the 60 Minutes expose on Greg Mortenson, author of Three.