To help start off your Wednesday right... Fantastic multi-media article on the South China Sea. How court decisions affect national security practice. This seems a trifle ambitious for South Korea. The next step for AirSea Battle. The chances that this plane will come in on budget...
If I wait to write this post this weekend, the topic will be moot, so... Do you Halloween? Do you do cute Halloween or scary Halloween? (more…)
On October 30, 1837, Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed.
Several states have begun to erect a series of regulations on abortion that would make it essentially impossible for many women within their states to obtain an abortion by making it impossible for clinics to operate. The question now becomes whether the federal courts will prevent...
Knew I liked that guy for some reason.
Among the many products we probably don't actively think of as having a major pollution impact in Sriracha. But in Irwindale, where the hot sauce’s production facilities are, residents are.
Since the Newtown killings last December, at least 9900 Americans have died from guns. The total mass political movement from this has been the recall of two Colorado legislators who voted for gun-control legislation. Update [PC]: The 9,900 figure is, as Slate notes, a massive underestimate,...
The post by the esteemed Mr. Bogg Rob references below finds a couple more classics of the "why do rational progressives support the most progressive candidates possible rather than...something" genre.
Whiskey Fire is creeping up on its 4 millionth hit. It couldn't happen to a nicer ( or more funny, awesome) blog. It's where I got my start, before I SOLD.
--This is brogressivism in a nutshell. (It's also mind-bogglingly stupid. The charge of tribalism makes me want to headdesk forever and ever.) So many issues to be concerned about...just not issues that affect women's lives. I love the idea that there are good (worthy) issues and...
University of Illinois professor Nicholas Burbules' anti-faculty union arguments are laughable. They are laughable precisely because he ignores the reality of 21st century administration-faculty relationships and what administrations are trying.
Evidently, a pig in 1942 was extra, well, piggish and ate too much. So its owner named it Hitler. And painted the name on it.