Interesting comparison:The most wanted Chechen rebel warlord, Shamil Basayev, has died in an explosion in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia.Russia's FSB security service chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said Basayev was killed in a "special operation".But a pro-rebel website said Basayev and three other militants died when a...
I think Anthony Cordesman's point regarding North Korean missile ranges helps explain Peter's observation that the Japanese are really freaked. Cordesman:There is absolutely no meaningful agreement about what the more.
Governor Fletcher continues to stagger me with his tin-eared ineptitude. Irritated that he's been indicted, Ernie has proposed that the Treasurer and Attorney General of Kentucky ought to be appointed,.
Publius has already addressed the most baffling claim in the latest in Jon Chait's increasingly strained defenses of Joe Lieberman and attacks on evil blogofascists, his argument that Kos et al "believe that any deviation from the party line--except for a few circumscribed instances, such as...
While I was away, any number of conservatives who either honestly or passive-aggressively oppose gay marriage tried to sell the idea that the New York Court of Appeals' upholding of.
Speaking of thugs, Dority vs. Turner has to be the most entertaining bit of television I've seen all year....although Alma vs. Ellsworth gives it a good run. What a great.
Congratulations to Italy. What a crappy sport.
Nathan and Matt are 100% correct about the badness of the recent decision [actually, I think this is the wrong way of putting it; see update] holding that CleanFlix--a company.
A further note on deterrence theory; the most common critique (but not, as I have argued, the correct critique) is that deterrence theory cannot answer the problem of "madmen", leaders.
Matt of the Tattered Coat channels the question “Who are your favorite Film Thugs of all time?” Matt's answers come from film noir; Chinatown and the Set-Up. Here are some of mine. The definition of "thug" would seem to me to be a physically imposing henchmen...
In the wake of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to pursue the "8-8" program, designed to provide Japan with eight modern battlecruisers and eight modern battleships. Because.
Matt wonders what I think about Stephen Metcalf's trashing of the Searchers. I generally (but not unreservedly) like Metcalf, although he certainly does often fall into the Slate contrarian-for-contrarian's-sake model.