(Being a response to Link to Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Petition)

The chosen apparel of cranks everywhere! This fsck'ing brought to you by ALCOA: "Don't leave home without your aluminum chapeau."


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Powerline Blog has an interesting analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, and the appreciation (or more precisely, the lack of appreciation) of that situation by Senator Obama, as provided by an anonymous correspondent...

[Obama's] policy prescription there is equally as troubling as the one he proposes for Iraq (retreat!). If I may, I wanted to ( Read more... )

...only sizzle (or is that fizzle?).

Being a response to Steak Vs Sizzle

Chris Gerrib opines:
So, Barack Obama goes to Afghanistan, hangs out with the troops, and sez "we need more troops here." Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been saying this for weeks. He's also said "ain't got any to send, 'cause they're in ( Read more... )

Or perhaps their thesis has merely become non-operable.

So proclaims James Taranto in today’s Wall Street Journal:
V-AP Day
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By JAMES TARANTO
July 28, 2008It is often said that the Vietnam War’s pivotal event was Walter Cronkite’s Feb. 27, 1968, editorial declaring after the Tet Offensive that America was “mired in stalemate” ( Read more... )

Chapter 3

Previously:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

A natural experiment is a case where differing approaches to a problem are adopted by different entities with essentially identical demographics. In this case, two Virginia counties (Prince William and Fairfax) adopted strict enforcement and sanctuary approaches (respectively) with regards to illegal immigration ( Read more... )

From the Global War on Terror.

Via Strategy Page
by Jim Dunnigan:

Lessons Of The Iraq War July 25, 2008: As the U.S. armed forces have done so many times before, they entered the uncertainty of a new war in 2001, and are now trying to figure out what they gained from it. Most of what went on during this war was unreported or misreported. This ( Read more... )

Of the explosive variety:
Mystery explosions point to Iran’s secret arms shipments to terrorists

Telegraph.co.uk

By Con Coughlin in Vienna

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 24/07/2008For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time. It’s not ( Read more... )

Still pretty damn smokey here in San Jose. We've had a few days of relatively light smoke, but only a few ( Read more... )

I don't come to this subject lightly, as I was born in The City. I have never lived there in my memory, nor can I say I am favorably impressed with what I see when business or social events require my presence in The City. It's most certainly not The City I remember visiting in the late sixties and early seventies. But still, it's where I was ( Read more... )