Tom makes a good point; over the last Friedman Unit, US casualties in Iraq have been really, really bad. The increase preceded the Surge, but the Surge hasn't had any apparent effect on the death rate. Casualty rates aren't a great way to evaluate the success...
On to the Senior Circuit, listed in predicted orders of finish that can be taken straight to your local bookie, wildcard asterisked. AL here.NL EAST: NYM ATL (*) PHI FLA.
Charles Johnson et al. crying "Dhimittude!!!ONE!#W!" over Nancy Pelosi wearing a headscarf is, of course, just straightforward bigotry; apparently, we're expected to believe that Muslims are so subhuman that showing.
Appalling. At times like this, it always seems worth returning to the Mighty Reason Man's summary of Instapundit:HERE'S AN INTERESTING POST by a guy named Steve from Des Moines. He highlights the direct connection between the modern Democratic Party and the National Socialist German Workers Party....
Allright, time for some picks (teams listed in order of finish, * wildcard):AL East: NYY, BOS, TOR, BAL, TB I hate to tell you this, but I think the Yankees.
Call me shallow and Althousian, but I really think John McCain should try to find some new friends for his MySpace page. Behold:Woody: "i belive that the way the democrates.
Huh.Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine."The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father....
Yglesias finds Rudy Giuliani asserting an "inherent authority" to fund troops without Congressional appropriations. Evidently, it would be difficult to find a claim made by a mainstream candidate more transparently.
A red rubber nose would really complete this outfitJMM analyzes the moldering corpse that is John McCain's ambition to be President, and links it to the ice-cream-castles-in-the-air rhetoric that has.
Obviously, Lamoriello deserves a pretty high benefit of the doubt, but his firing of Claude Julien with 102 points and counting is just bizarre. I really can't think of any non-Devil precedent for the coach of a very successful team being fired this late in the...
In addition to being Treason-in-Defense of Slavery Month, this April is the heart of the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War. I'll have more later this month about some naval.
Congratulations to J. James, whose creatively dubbed "James1" entry has won the 2007 LGM Tourney Challenge. As soon as J. James favors me with his or her e-mail address, I.