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Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Debt Crisis
Dana Milbank "Greece's national debt last year reached 113 percent of gross domestic product. The United States will hit that in about 2020, according to the Government Accountability Office, assuming policy continues as it has. And last year's U.S. budget … Continue reading
Posted in government, Policy, The economy
52 Comments
Run Sarah! All the way to Amalfi!
"I asked one woman whether she'd been part of "9/12," as tea partiers call the great taxpayer march on Washington, D.C., last September. No, she'd missed it, she said, and "felt really guilty" about doing so, but she and her … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
14 Comments
Nothing is better than:
Coconut ice cream, bone in fillets at the Capital Grille, country ham cooked with my recipe, ambrosia, good raw oysters (preferably Blue Points or Kumamotos), Pat's Philly Cheese Steaks, carbonara at "Abruzzi" behind the Franciscan conventual convent in Rome and next to the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
55 Comments
Iraq – Electoral prelude to continued withdrawal
"Mortar rounds also were lobbed toward the Green Zone, the heavily fortified area that is home to the U.S. Embassy and the prime minister's office. The attacks in Baghdad, which hit both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, seemed to have impacted … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
16 Comments
“Traumatic Brain Injury and the Military”
"Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is becoming a common wound of modern warfare. It has even been coined the “signature wound” of the War on Terror. While TBI is becoming more prevalent in wartime activity, many service men and women continue … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq
9 Comments
Bligh, Queeg and Graf
Capt. Holly Graf, commander of the USS Cowpens, a guided-missile cruiser, was relieved of duty Jan. 13 after an investigation found she cursed so much at her 400-member crew that even the sailors — no strangers to four-letter words — … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art
30 Comments
On “Black Swans,” “fat-tailed sheep” and future history.
"Any large-scale political unit is a complex system. Most great empires have a nominal central authority — either a hereditary emperor or an elected president — but in practice the power of any individual ruler is a function of the … Continue reading
Posted in The economy
44 Comments
War Dogs
"Like their human comrades, some war dogs can handle combat, and some can't. One Marine Corps explosives dog, a black Lab named Daisy, has found 13 hidden bombs since arriving in Afghanistan in October. Zoom, another Lab, refused to associate … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, The Military Art
28 Comments
The Iraqi election
"Kamran Bokhari, chief Middle East analyst for the private intelligence firm Stratfor, says ethnic and sectarian identity is still a key determinant in Iraqi political calculations. "This is a situation in flux. Sure, people want better governance and we see … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq
22 Comments
SCOTUS and the 2nd Amendment
"The Supreme Court appears willing to say that the Constitution's right to possess guns limits state and local regulation of firearms. But the justices also suggested that some gun control measures might not be affected. The court heard arguments Tuesday … Continue reading
Posted in government, Politics
44 Comments