I look forward for weeks to the moment each year when, in National Security Policy, I can hold forth on the stupidity of having both a Department of Homeland Security and and Department of Defense. Brought to you by Joe Lieberman, of course. We should change...
Olmert is right; the settlements are poison to Israel. Noam Arnon, a settler who lives in Hebron, said that with the eviction, Barak was destroying not only his Labor Party,.
This op-ed lists William Ayers as the author of "Fugitive Days" and "Race Course", but not of "Dreams of My Father"; that can't be right...
I didn't even have to get shot to get on Bloggingheads...
I can't recommend highly enough the BBC Radio program "The Human Button," which explores the human element of the British nuclear deterrent. The program interviews a number of former government.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Speaking of nuclear deterrence, check out this report from Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen on Indian nuclear capabilities. Brief summary; India currently has 50-70 operational warheads, and its only reliable delivery systems are fighter-bombers and short range ballistic missiles. However, India's MRBM (medium range ballistic missile),...
I think we can all agree that this is the most disappointing moment so far in the Obama transition. Richardson's beard-cleansing is a clear sign that the team being assembled.
Loomis, in reference to a post at the NYT's green blog:After taking Bank of American executives on a helicopter tour of mountaintop removal sites, the NRDC convinced the bank to.
Ezra Klein and Tim Fernholz are having some fun kicking around Christopher Hitchens argument that we should defiantly refer to the city currently known as Mumbai as Bombay. See also Isaac Chotiner. When you're siding with Hitchens against Klein you should probably be careful, but I...
I've been in transit for much of the week so haven't been able to say as much about the story as I'd like, but Canada's Governor-General has permitted Stephen Harper.
Peter Juul makes the case:Israel’s nuclear deterrent is shrouded in secrecy, but it is estimated to have between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads. Like the United States, Israel’s nuclear delivery.