Riverbend reflects on the Lancet study:The responses were typical- war supporters said the number was nonsense because, of course, who would want to admit that an action they so heartily supported led to the deaths of 600,000 people (even if they were just crazy Iraqis…)? Admitting...
Dave and Gary both have both commented on Yglesias' post on George Kennan and the appreciation of foreign policy expertise at the beginning of the Cold War. I'd like to.
Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the.
Charles Pierce reminds me of my favorite conspiracy, Operation Northwoods. In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled "Justification...
The Wall Street Journal had decided to turn the question of the scientific value of the recent Lancet study over to...former Hair Club For Growth uber-hack Stephen Moore. Stephen Moore..
Behold:Charles P. Strite, born in Minneapolis, MN, received patent #1,394,450 on October 18, 1921 for the bread-toaster. During World War I, Strite worked in a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, MN,.
Yglesias asks the above question in regards to the decision to announce unilateral space hegemony at exactly the same time that we're trying to secure Russian and Chinese cooperation on North Korea. My short answer would be no; the elements of the administration committed to diplomacy...
I have a new post at TAPPED up about the ludicrous fake outrage surrounding the outing of Larry Craig. See also Mona, Glenn, and Pam. Shakes defends outing in limited.
For those of you weren't aware of what this new ad is copying, note the original Jesse Helms ad above. Except that the new one seems to be for people.
From the Times' second most e-mailed story of the past several days (behind something on the arcane and mildly distressing subject of "preschool puberty"):Representative Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican who heads a House intelligence subcommittee charged with overseeing the C.I.A.’s performance in recruiting Islamic spies...
Diane Nash, as Erik Loomis explains.Sadly, the centrality of women to the civil rights movement has only become faintly visible to most Americans with the deaths of Rosa Parks and.
Fascinating.In "Steel Drivin’ Man," Scott Reynolds Nelson argues that the John Henry story was no tall tale, and Henry himself no myth. Historians have long speculated that the John Henry.