IB writes:I was very pleased to see a handful of commentators politely question Hilzoy's nostalgia for the Afghan War that could have been (but that "unserious" people understood even at the time would be a clusterfuck).To my shame, I was more or less neutral on the...
I was informed that the Yankees would quickly start losing as soon as they encountered the formidable Tribe, and I certainly wanted this to be true. Admittedly, such arguments would.
Gameshow kingpin Merv Griffin is no more. An odd guy by any standard, Griffin was a right wing nut who introduced Nancy Reagan to his psychic. His very name, however,.
The foreign policy stylings of George W. Bush:But that skepticism had never taken hold in Washington. Since the 2001 war, American intelligence agencies had reported that the Taliban were so decimated they no longer posed a threat, according to two senior intelligence officials who reviewed the...
In 1806, a 36 year old Albanian man named Muhammed Ali was appointed Viceroy of Egypt. The son of a tobacco merchant, Muhammed had distinguished himself as an officer in.
Hey, Robert Mugabe likes the American move towards arbitrary executive power just fine!
See Lauren and Jane Hamsher. Obviously, it's a tough line to walk when you try to discuss the legitimate issue of the underrepresentation of women in the blogopshere without slighting the women who are there, but it seems to me that Goodman crossed the line into...
More evidence of Bush's "great neo-conservative mind" in action:On April 17 [2002], Mr. Bush traveled to the Virginia Military Institute, where Gen. George C. Marshall trained a century ago. “Marshall.
Prove me wrong!There seems to be some dissension about my claim that the Yankees will win the wildcard. And while "mortal lock" is obviously hyperbolic (if the Mariners can have.
Martin and Audrey, June 2007.And since I have an odd, unproductive interest in old books about cats, here's an interesting piece of commentary from Helen M. Winslow's Concerning Cats (1900):Although cats have no place in the Bible, neither can their enemies who sing the praise of...
It appears that the wreck of HMAS Sydney has been discovered. The 66-year search for the wreck of HMAS Sydney, on which 645 Australians lost their lives, is almost certainly.
Given that I've given up on the idea of prison as rehabilitative, what does it mean when someone actually is rehabilitated in prison? That's my takeaway after reading yesterday's NY.