Game 7

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Is Oliver "Clothesoff" Perez (3-13, 6.55 E.R.A.) having the worst season of any pitcher ever to start a seventh game? Not that I think Randolph is wrong--Perez had a 139 ERA+ just 2 years ago, and in an all-hands-on-deck game it makes sense to start the...
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Axis of Waterboarding

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The BBC asked 27,000 respondents in 25 countries to briefly evaluate these two statements:Most countries have agreed to rules prohibiting torturing prisoners. Which position is closer to yours?Terrorists pose such an extreme threat that governments should now be allowed to use some degree of torture if...

Air Power

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On October 18, 2006
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Evidence cannot discredit revolutionary doctrine, as the revolutionaries simply interpret new evidence in whatever way they see fit. Air power enthusiasts have taken rather a hit lately, first with the failure of air power to tame Hezbollah in Lebanon (to the extent that the IDF did...

Northwoods

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On October 18, 2006

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Charles Pierce reminds me of my favorite conspiracy, Operation Northwoods. In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of.

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