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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Tag Archives: warfare
What Drones Over Libya Actually Mean
Remote warfare is the newest “Revolution in Military Affairs” (RMA), to use Pentagon-speak. Future Navy carriers will keep their pilots on board to fly drones over the horizon. So count me unsurprised to learn the president has authorized them to … Continue reading
To the Shores of Tripoli?
The Europeans are already running short of precision munitions. That was not unexpected here; count me among the Euroskeptics on conventional power projection. But this caught my eye: A spokesman for the Misurata City Council appealed for NATO to send … Continue reading
Morning Awful: “Clear Goals” in Libya
Altogether too many people are whining about Libya without regard to the rather important little fact that Libya is theirs to win, not ours. So write this down: the United States doesn’t have to come up with an “end game” … Continue reading
What Is Ghaddafi’s Defeat Doctrine?
Objections to the cost of the Libyan intervention are understandable, and welcome. However, the virtual entirety of OP Odyssey Dawn is coming off-the-shelf: a Tomahawk missile deployed at sea has already been purchased and manufactured, for example. The most expensive … Continue reading
Applied Force In Libya
War is a blunt instrument, be your weapons ever so precise. Firepower has a limited utility inversely proportional to its explosive potential. Nevertheless, my response to those who say that ‘war is a lie’ is to ask the city fathers … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Railgun
The U.S. Navy has test-fired the most powerful railgun ever. The upside is that rail guns are not as environmentally damaging as depleted uranium; the downside is that they make it incredibly tempting to solve problems by reaching out and … Continue reading
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, it was patriotic to pay your taxes. In 2010, it is not. This historical shift in your national values comes courtesy of the conservative movement, which lays claim to the inheritance of the Greatest Generation’s values … Continue reading
If Tax Cuts Worked As Advertised, We Would All Be Rich
Current income tax rates make it possible for Warren Buffet to pay a lower rate of tax than his secretary: her income is earned as wages or salary, while his is “capital gains.” According to the aptly-named Laffer Curve and … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Kitchener’s Divisions
Battle of the Somme tells the story of a disastrous victory:
Saturday Afternoon TV: Why We Fight
Dual-Track Approaches And Enlargement
The final decade of the Cold War saw the western alliance adopt something called the “dual-track” approach to arms control. On the one hand, NATO continued assembling thousands of new thermonuclear warheads and deploying missiles; the other hand held out … Continue reading
