Enjoy sharing the hotseat with Augusto Pinochet. In fairness, you made the General look like a rank amateur.... to pre-empt misunderstanding, I don't think his ouster was worth the bones of a single Prussian Grenadier, I'm sure that his execution will have no effect on the...
Chris Bray at Historiblogography urges us to celebrate December 29 as C.D. Alston Day, in honor of the Air Force Brigadier General who predicted confidently one year ago that Iraqi.
Read Loomis' nice essay on Daniel Webster. Webster is among the most forgotten of the forgotten legislative titans of the 19th century, although I think that, outside of Lexington, even.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
In the Somalia comment section below, Eric Martin writes:Now, do I think that fear of further inflaming Muslim opinion through our actions in the Horn should be our overriding and.
What better way to spend a slow blogging season than by posting some favorite hatchet jobs? In comments to yesterday's post, many people are bringing up Matt Taibbi's classic review.
Again, I say: Sebelius for VP![Link Fixed.]
Eric Martin links to Fred Kaplan's nice illustration of how reduced recruiting standards matter for military performance:The pattern is clear: The higher the score on the aptitude test, the better.
LGM, on the other hand, will happily endorse the first candidate to buy a Blogad on our site.Not really, but I wish someone would buy a damn Blogad. We've been.
I have to admit that I'm a little puzzled by Matt's dudgeon regarding the Ethiopia-Somalia war. The situation in Somalia has, for the last fifteen years, been just about as bad as one can imagine. The Islamist groups that control parts of Somalia seem far less...
As noted by many commenters, the inevitable meltdown as Althouse refuses to acknowledge the plain meaning of her remarks or suggest another coherent one has occurred [no link because she.
Apropos of nothing, I would like to note that this John Leland [thanks to commenter for the typo correction] review of some compilation of the unread profit-taking by famous authors.