The uncontrolled giggling you may have heard since the President's speech on May 15 has come, in large part, from defense contractors. As Gordo at Liberal Avenger noted, the Secure Border Initiative will prove to be a porktastic contractors delight. Armchair Generalist commented here. The lead...
Defense News just recently published its twentieth anniversary issue. Of particular note to me was an article on the difference that twenty years has made in naval procurement. In 1986...583.
George Bush's drive to consolidate power and squelch dissent from dissenting professionals in the civil service got a boost today, as his appointment of Alito paid immediate dividends:The Supreme Court.
Shorter Marshall Wittmann: Containment cannot possibly work with Iran, because their "leader" (who doesn't actually control Iranian foreign policy, but never mind) isn't a modest, entirely rational leader who never makes belligerent statements in public, unlike Mao, Stalin, Khrushchev, or Kim Jong-il. And we still would...
Responding to my point in comments that it was ridiculous to claim that the U.S. "established" a democratic government in Iraq, because (in addition to the fact that there hasn't.
The Kentucky Bearded Ducks remain in first place. Loomis falls farther behind only a week after making a reckless, narcotic fueled boast that I Love Technology would leave the Bearded.
Chris Welsh, Cincinnati Reds color man, upon the event of Ryan Freel being robbed of a home run by a bad umpiring call:"Sometimes a leadoff home run can be a real rally killer"
Becks points to this post by August, who notes another dimension to the recent run of "Prove your heterosexual masculine heterosexuality by, after you've burned your minivan, eating all the.
Aw, this sounds like such a sweet story:A spectator got a hand on the [Barry Bonds 715 home run] ball but could not hold it. It caromed into a gap.
Finally, a Pentagon idea I can get behind:The Pentagon plan calls for deploying a nonnuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident II missile that could be used to attack terrorist camps, enemy missile sites, suspected caches of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons and other potentially urgent threats,...
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, vis TaxProfBlog:Two Yale University professors, Ian Shapiro and Michael J. Graetz, expected to receive a 2006 Sidney Hillman Award on Tuesday at a ceremony.
In comments, Michael argues:"Michael Dukakis immediately and publicly rejected the opportunity to attack Bush on the issue..."I think a different example needs to be provided. There was no "opportunity to.