Brendan at Stand Down asks some interesting questions about the Iraqi elections:The key question are these. Amidst all the prattling about influences of 'foreign powers' the influence of one very important foreign power has been minimised. But there are important...
Upon seeing the news of the missile defense system test failure, I of course rushed over to Defense Tech to see how they characterized this monstrous boondoggle: PERFORMANCE ANXIETY: MISSILE DEFENSE BOOSTER FAILS TO RISE TO THE OCCASSION
From the film "Gunner Palace" here's a film clip showing what US soldiers think of their Hillbilly Armored Humvees. QuickTime movie clip. Link via Political Animal
(see 10 for introduction) 4.5 next "Progressive" bellwether John Nichols supports the right-to-vote amendment in Tuesday's Capital Times, that's 105 columns down, five to go and he'll have made it through the year without using the word "Israel." If that isn't...
"Heroes are essential to the improvement of society" – and the 20thCentury had such a hero in Andrei Sakharov, famed Soviet physicist and much, much more – fighter for human rights and democracy in the midst of that lethally minded and cold-souled tyrant,...
Here. Judge it for yourself. "And to George W. Bush: You have asked us to "Bring it on." And, so have we, like never expected. Have you another challenge?" WMV downloadable file here. Please download rather than hotlink.
Yuschenko isn't interested in finding out who tried to murder him until after the election.Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko called for a serious investigation to determine how he was poisoned by dioxin, but urged it be conducted after the December 26...
I thought I'd do a report on Fallujah Reconstruction: American warplanes pounded Fallujah with missiles Sunday as insurgents fought running battles with coalition forces in the volatile western Iraqi city. The U.S. military said two troops died in separate...
Via the indispensable Yankeedoodle at Iraq Today, we find this interesting article by Phil Carter in the NY Times. Phil argues that the Great Armor Crisis is due to the US military fighting a conflict in which there are no front lines with equipment designed for...
I read the following passage in David D. Friedman's Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (published in '97): In the previous discussion, we were considering a pure depletable resource -- a resource whose price was entirely determined by its limited supply....
