Michael Ledeen R.I.P. (Or is it just his brain? Attacking the shoddy standards of the Em Ess Em can be so confusing sometimes.)
Glenn Reynolds:Because I'm unhappy with our current state of medical progress, the most important single issue to me is which [health] system encourages research and development. The answer, of course,.
Via Yglesias, we see that "liberal hawks" (at least as defined as liberals who think that replacing a bad dictatorship that posed no security threat to the United States with.
As was the case in many parts of the world, initial Hawaiian contact with the West led to the centralization of governing institutions. The ability of certain kings and chiefs to establish relationships with the West and count on Western military and economic support tipped the...
It is important to clarify the position of Lawyers, Guns and Money regarding the serial comma. LGM as an institution has no position on the usefulness or lack thereof of.
According to Ain't it Cool, the direct-to-DVD feature length BSG production between seasons three and four will focus on the experiences of Pegasus during the time of the initial Cylon.
The town of Oregon City is by no means progressive. Although nominally a suburb of very liberal Portland, it lies at the edge of the metropolitan area, on the border between very leftish urban Oregon and very conservative rural Oregon. Among Portland suburbanites Oregon City is...
A hearty welcome back to Alterdestiny, which was felled for three weeks by unknown and frustrating technical problems.
Nuclear landmines.The seven-ton Blue Peacock consisted of a huge steel casing containing a plutonium core surrounded by high explosives. Its yield was about ten kilotons, and the plan was to.
More a pretext for an open thread, but--team I would pick in bold:Indianapolis (+3 1/2) at Baltimore: Like a Yankees/Dodgers World Series or a Canucks/Maple Leafs Stanley Cup final, a true "the only good result is two plane crashes" bowl, as the result of the two...
The conservative punditocracy jumped the shark long ago, but this week marks a special low, particularly if the latest column by Jonah Goldberg is any indication. Proceeding from the false.
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