Part 18 in our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower brings us to 1974, and Gerald Ford's unlikely ascension to the office of the Presidency. The chapter ends with the election of Ronald Reagan. In between, Herring expresses unlikely sympathy for the...
Apparently, the old Harman v. Hastings confrontation was tilted even more decisively in the latter's favor, as Harman would seem to have combined being wrong about pretty much every important.
Many people have already noted a key takeaway from Scott Shane's article on the CIA's arbitrary torture regime: it didn't work. A couple things about it are also worth noting..
Tom Ricks is not going to be a popular man this morning:Want to trim the federal budget and improve the military at the same time? Shut down West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, and use some of the savings to expand ROTC scholarships. After...
Via Danger Room, Robert Gates invokes the destruction of Force Z in defense of creative military thinking:The Royal Navy’s greatest defeat in World War II – the sinking of the.
Always irrelevant to actual defenses of torture. [For the classic explanations, see Henley and Waring.]
The latest entry to the site's Hall of Fame:There is something funny going on here, if not exactly where Cooper, Maddow and Sullivan find it. Cooper is widely reputed to be homosexual. Maddow and Sullivan are of course public homosexuals. It is funny in an ironic...
Erik makes an important point; Texas has thus far seceded from two different countries in order to defend the right of white people to own black people. In that context,.
We're now to part 17 of our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. I am told that there is the possibility that the second half of.
Obviously, Rivera is by far the greatest closer in major league history, but I'm not sure that should mean that for every six pitches you throw out of the strike zone three should be called strikes, which makes getting that last out a lot easier. (Admittedly,...
I strongly recommend Kate Sheppard's piece on the EPA's new determination that "that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare," both because it provides valuable information.
The evidence that he made anything but trivial mistakes remains pretty much non-existent.