Sam Dagher at the CSM has a good article on the potential detrimental effect of having large numbers of US troops in close quarters with Iraqi civilians. Invariably, in a counter-insurgency conflict, civilians are going to be killed by US forces. This is particularly true of...
Just my imagination, or are there a lot of people dying lately?The Best and the Brightest is an outstanding book; I haven't yet read War in a Time of Peace,.
Interesting; I've always thought of Bernie Shaw's death penalty question to Mike Dukakis as more of a high fastball than a spitball. Dukakis could (and did) strike out on the.
James Buchanan, arguably the worst chief executive in American history, was born on this date in 1791. The only president to hail from Pennsylvania, Buchanan stood for nearly everything the state’s Quaker founders detested, including the institution of slavery, which he sought to extend before watching...
1931-2007. He got drunk and fell off a bridge once. Then he presided over the final wreckage of his country. If anyone ever wants evidence of what the two worst.
The federal GOP's social and economic model Mississippi, as some of you know, is one of the more than 20 states with latent abortion bans that would come into effect.
Ugh. At least it could have been a quick execution, not an ugly 2 overtime job. It would have been a temporary stay with a hearing in front of Scalia on Tuesday anyway; Kiprusoff really deserves a better team in front of him (and coaching staff)...
Oh, yeah.. And the final out was deeply satisfying.
We were fortunate to have Dave Neiwert in Juneau last week. The students in my US 1919-1950 course were reading Strawberry Days, Dave's latest book about the enduring damage caused.
Not surprisingly--given that it's charged with the task of defending a law that is indefensible under current doctrine--there are many bad elements to Kennedy's opinion besides its egregious sexism and acceptance of straightforward factual errors. Another weakness is the bizarre illogic of Kennedy's claim that an...
In the wake of the Reconquista, Muslims and Jews fleeing Spain found their way in numbers to what would become modern Tunisia. A struggle for control between Spain and Turkey.
I don't really agree with the take of Garance and Ezra on Maureen Dowd's abjectly horrible column yesterday. The error they're making, I think, it to assume that these charges.