Anybody read T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom? I haven't, but I'm assigning it next term; if you have any thoughts re: boiling down the 700 or so pages down to a digestible chunk for a graduate strategy course, leave them in comments......recommendations on editions will...
This is groovy, in a suicidal kind of way:Via DR.
Erik writes a bit more about the utility of including the Civil War among the 19th century wars of national unification: Herring argues that the Civil War was part of.
Shorter Weekly Standard: If American journalism wants to restore its reputation, the only acceptable form covering Dick Cheney is the fellatio cool objectivity of Stephen Hayes.Almost any part of this review could be a "verbatim," but I think this was my favorite passage:There is the cherry-picking...
The Iranians have joined the anti-piracy brigade: Iranian state radio says Iran has sent a warship to the coast of Somalia to protect its cargo ships against piracy.The Saturday report.
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The coup that was probably a purge now turns out maybe to have been a failed purge: Iraq’s interior minister said all 24 of his officers who had been arrested in a security crackdown this week would be released. And in a bold gesture of defiance,...
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Weird day up here in The Crazy State. (1) Sherry "Fuckin' Redneck" Johnson -- the maybe, sort-of someday mother-in-law of Bristol Palin -- has apparently been smelling a bit too.
Matt and Spencer greet the news that China will contribute to anti-piracy efforts with a bit of faux surprise; the motivating concept behind the most recent Maritime Strategy and its predecessor, the 1000 Ship Navy, holds that naval power isn't zero-sum. Galrahn has a good discussion...
To follow up on this, it's not merely that the California court's decision was directed entirely at state actors, and had no bearing on the actions of private churches at.
Read Benen on Rove. Also, RB sends this delightful transcript:MR. DeMUTH: Another book that you famously read was Eliot Cohen's "Supreme Command." And he later went to work for you.THE.