The problem with a precedent is, of course, that someone might follow it. Rodger writes:Given how the US reacted to the traumatic 9/11 attacks -- wars against Afghanistan and Iraq that are still ongoing and adoption of a dangerous public doctrine of "preemptive" action that...
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Remember when James Lileks gave an obscene, definitively chickenhawkish ("from my home in suburban Minnesota, I feel comfortable lecturing you for your unwillingness to engage in a suicidal revolutionary mission.
Echidne, Steve and Mahablog have already effectively covered this Times story about a new government study about public and private schools. There are two stories here: 1)the differences between the.
Make sure to read Kingdaddy's excellent series on the Barbary Wars:Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVKingdaddy has some good observations, and makes some interesting parallels between the dilemmas facing the early Republic and the modern empire.
Make sure to read Kevin Baker's brilliant essay on the "stab in the back" myth. My favorite bit:The POW/MIA flags, with their black-and-white iconography of shame, now fly everywhere in.
I certainly don't have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in.
I'll be on WVLK at 10:07am Eastern to discuss the Israel-Arab dispute. As readers of this blog know, this is a subject that I'm well-versed in and love to talk about in public fora. Listen in if you want to hear a man make a...
Friday Cat Blogging... Frodo and Pip
The Reverend William Lawson takes the conservative victimization ball and runs it well past the point of pure moral idiocy:Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was.
Good Defense News article (subscription only) on the deployment of the DF-31 and the DF-31A. These are the first Chinese missiles capable of MIRVing (3-5 warheads each of up to 150 kilotons). The former have an 8000 mile range, which simply reinforces and expands existing...
Yes, I realize this is an unhealthy obsession.Mickey has responded:Numerous readers email to note Plano's very Republican voting record--Collins County, of which it's a part, went 71% for Bush in.
The Reds had a tendency to blow late inning leads. This was a problem. They have now solved this problem by ensuring that they will never again take a lead.