Starting tomorrow, I will begin blogging at TAPPED. Some content will be cross-posted at LGM, and much will be found only at LGM (curiously, Sam didn't include Battleship Blogging in my TAP contract). However, many posts dealing specifically with foreign policy will now likely be found...
USS Mississipi, second ship of the New Mexico class, carried 12 14" guns, displaced 32000 tons, and could make 21 knots. Mississipi was one of twelve "standard type" battleships, designed.
VDH on Jimmy Carter:Carter’s Waterloo, of course was the Iranian hostage crisis. It was not just that his gutting of the military helped to explain the rescue disaster. Far more.
Roy reads 'em so you don't have to. The reactions are depressingly predictable. Goldberg throws out a bizarre non-sequitur. Althouse is unable to comment, because she can't deploy the high standards of impartiality and intellectual rigor for which she is justly famed--like when she implied that...
I wonder if Ron Moore interviewed any US interogators with experience in Iraq for Webisode 8; nothing short of outstanding, in any case. Looking forward to October 6, more commentary.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
The Editors point to some data that should compel us to keep things in perspective:House vote: 253-168 60.1%Republicans: 219-7 96.9%Democrats: 34-160 17.5%Senate vote: 65-34 65.7%Republicans: 53-1 98.1%Democrats: 12-32 27.3%As he, and Glenn , Tom and Barbara remind us, let's make sure we keep focus on where...
Perdro out for the season. And the NL playoffs keep getting more interesting...
The vote national disgrace tally doesn't seem to be up on Thomas yet. According to Lederman:Democrats voting in favor included Carper, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg [!!], Lieberman[Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself Joe--Why.
Yglesias and ogged ask about the constitutionality of the Arbitrary Detention and Torture Act of 2006. I wish I had good news, but...On the Habeas Corpus issue, the Constitution is regrettably clear-cut. Article I, s.9:The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended,...
A full list of the Senators who have disgraced themselves and their country by removing any meaningful constraints on the President's ability to detain and torture anybody at his whim.
I'm enthusiastically awaiting the arrival The Last King of Scotland in Lexington, but I must admit that Dana Stevens review of the film reminds me a little bit of Chinua.