The Indian Navy is currently operating Viraat, a 48 year old former British carrier. To rectify this, they recently purchased a twenty year old Russian carrier. Unfortunately:Russia’s main military shipyard is at least three years behind schedule on a $1.5 billion contract to modernize an aircraft...
So I watched the video, had a great idea for a post, but then I scrolled down and saw that Matt beat me to Romney's non-sequitur response to Ron Paul's.
This love for Liptak is becoming something of a weekly tradition. He's just been writing such damn good columns.Today - behind the TimesSelect curtain - Liptak takes on laws that.
I'm not sure if the new Temperance League has cleared this record for public consumption, but congrats to Tom Glavine. It's a little bittersweet, given how many of those involved throttling the Expos, but it's always a remarkable accomplishment.Speaking of the new TL, one of our...
Brad Plumer has a discussion of requirements that welfare recipients in San Diego submit to warrantless searches of their homes. This kind of policy presents one of the thorniest problems.
The gargling sound you may have heard earlier today came from deep within the throat of Noel Sheppard, who's yowling about Newsweek's belated discovery -- twelve years after Ross Gelbspan.
There are some obvious problems with, as part of the silly "Porkbusters" project, blaming "pork" for the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis. But the most obvious is that providing funding for local bridge repair projects is exactly the kind of spending generally referred to a...
Montenegro emerged as a territorial unit around the 14th century. Although the Ottoman Turks conquered part of modern Montenegro, and Venice exerted considerable influence over the rest, the antecedents of.
Although Matt is wrong about baseball he is right about Bonds. I've avoided writing about steroids because my position is "who gives a shit?" Even leaving aside the fact that.
Above: Harry Reid (D-NV, #5)I can't add much (aside from an obscure reference to my favorite non-baseball team evah to cheer me up a little) to to the analysis of Le Chien Qui Parle, Lederman, Greenwald, and The Left when it comes to the abjectly disgraceful...
The war's most enduring organ-grinder is gettin' his Friedman on today, declaring once again that Bush's war has reached a turning point, and that Americans are slowly -- to the.
This post by Greg Djerejian on the now legendary O'Hanlon/Pollack op-ed is really indispensable; Greg takes them to task on their lack of hard evidence, reliance on impression, and apparent.