The Financial Times is reporting that Chinese-made weapons are being supplied, through Iran, to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior US official recently told the FT that Iran appeared to be providing the Chinese-made weapons. He said Washington had no evidence that Beijing was complicit,...
Lord Conrad facing 35 years. I've never had much sympathy for someone who is so desperate to be part of an anachronistic manifestation of illegitimate hierarchy he would renounce his.
Lorie Byrd has some ideas about how The Decider The Repeater can rally the nation to his beleaguered cause:The time to capture the attention of the American people is not.
Matt beat me to the most obvious response to Jeffrey Rosen's modified limited hangout on Chief Justice Roberts. Although it's indeed reasonable to have claimed that Roberts was better than some of the other alternatives, this is quite different than his contemporaneous arguments about Roberts, in...
My review of The Utility of Force is up at The American Prospect. Also see this review over at Armchair Generalist.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
What's scary is that I'm now covered by Delta. What's even scarier is that it is by all accounts better than our previous dental plan. This isn't going to help my neuroses over going to the dentist...
So, after a year of trying to make my cholesterol problem go away by ignoring it, I decide to finally get my prescription of Zetia refilled. I call up the.
Having been reminded that I've neglected my LGM Baseball Challenge duties, let me be the first to congratulate the Lonesome Tadahitos of thearistokatz for winning the first half of the.
Logically consistent Leslie Wayne: John Edwards's support for the 19th Amendment stands in sharp contrast to his having a penis. (Apologies if she's already used that one.)Evidently, the idea that there's some disturbing, fundamental contradiction in advocating policies for reasons other than pure material self-interest is...
I first learned BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20. With a cassette drive instead of a floppy drive (which was probably good for educational purposes, since the chances of a surreptitious.
I would like to think that Stephen Hayes's new book Cheney: An Excess of Torture to Avenge Saddam's Extensive Role in 9/11 Is No Vice was an elaborate joke, but.