Defense News just recently published its twentieth anniversary issue. Of particular note to me was an article on the difference that twenty years has made in naval procurement. In 1986...583 ships14 CV217 surface warships, including 3 battleships101 SSNIn 2006...281 ships.12 aircraft carriers91 surface warships54 attack submarinesAnd...
George Bush's drive to consolidate power and squelch dissent from dissenting professionals in the civil service got a boost today, as his appointment of Alito paid immediate dividends:The Supreme Court.
Shorter Marshall Wittmann: Containment cannot possibly work with Iran, because their "leader" (who doesn't actually control Iranian foreign policy, but never mind) isn't a modest, entirely rational leader who never.
Responding to my point in comments that it was ridiculous to claim that the U.S. "established" a democratic government in Iraq, because (in addition to the fact that there hasn't been a succession under the new Constitution) the state didn't have any substantial coercive capacity, one...
The Kentucky Bearded Ducks remain in first place. Loomis falls farther behind only a week after making a reckless, narcotic fueled boast that I Love Technology would leave the Bearded.
Chris Welsh, Cincinnati Reds color man, upon the event of Ryan Freel being robbed of a home run by a bad umpiring call:"Sometimes a leadoff home run can be a.
Becks points to this post by August, who notes another dimension to the recent run of "Prove your heterosexual masculine heterosexuality by, after you've burned your minivan, eating all the meats you can, maybe lots of sausages with nice big balls of mashed potatoes and gravy"...
Aw, this sounds like such a sweet story:A spectator got a hand on the [Barry Bonds 715 home run] ball but could not hold it. It caromed into a gap.
Finally, a Pentagon idea I can get behind:The Pentagon plan calls for deploying a nonnuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident II missile that could be used to attack terrorist camps,.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, vis TaxProfBlog:Two Yale University professors, Ian Shapiro and Michael J. Graetz, expected to receive a 2006 Sidney Hillman Award on Tuesday at a ceremony in New York City. Instead, they got phone calls on Tuesday morning telling them that the...
In comments, Michael argues:"Michael Dukakis immediately and publicly rejected the opportunity to attack Bush on the issue..."I think a different example needs to be provided. There was no "opportunity to.
This morning I had my first migraine headache in probably two years. The headache starts in my eyes. I see a flashing, kaleidoscopic blur just to the left of center.