Via Atrios, a link to the Heritage Foundation page on missile defense. As Atrios cogently points out, Talking Points and Recommendations have full, and Facts and Figures is empty. This is one I really despair of convincing anyone on. In a class setting, you can go...
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Not entirely, but it looks like the Army presence there will be sharply reduced. Frankly, this is a bit overdue. There's no real compelling need to keep even skeletal forces in.
Matt Duss noted some creepy White House rhetoric.
Chalk it up to incompetence; I was so very sad that we couldn't get tickets to the showing of Zhang Yimou's "Hero" at SIFF. Then I read the synopsis, discover that I've already seen the movie, including apparently twenty minutes not in the current cut....
What's the deal with the Tenet resignation? I don't know. Via Kevin Drum, Mark Kleinman has an interesting theory. I'd certainly like to believe that story, although it's probably too good.
Media Matters takes apart Stephen F. Hayes argument that Bin Laden and Hussein had an operational relationship between 1990 and 2003. This one requires just a smidgeon of common sense..
Nick Kristof thinks that communism in China ended on the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It's just taken the Chinese fifteen years to notice. So when will political change come to China? I don't have a clue, but it could come any time. While...
A reader writes: In all seriousness--Saddam Hussein thumbed his nose at the U.S., and for the sake of our credibility as a world hegemon, the U.S. was forced to stop.
What is it that irritates me about Mickey Kaus? Is it that his sixth-rate blog inexplicably gets first rate internet real estate? Is it that he sounds more like a.
Standing at the podium this morning, drinking my coffee, waiting to start my class. . . "Professor Farley," a student says. "Yes?" "I was wondering. . . My dad is driving Joseph Wilson around today, and he's going to be on University Avenue, and he...
Tacitus is concerned the the election of Kerry will end the peculiarly American quest for a democratic world. John Kerry thinks that stability may sometimes be more important than democracy. The.
I have fewer misgivings about Kerry than either Scott or Dave. Although I supported Clark at one point (and still support him for VP), I've always thought that Kerry would.