Month: May 2005

I don’t know about where you are today, but here in Penntucky, it’s been a gorgeous day: sun-dappled and mild (about 60°), with a crisp breeze blowing through the trees. You couldn’t ask for a better...

Swearengen: “Don’t the decapitated deserve recreation?” More best lines from Episode 20: Swearengen: “Certain facts show in the mug.” Swearengen: “Our moment permits interest in one question...

Our policy towards the former Soviet Union has always puzzled me.   Wounding a dangerous adversary, and then walking away… not really caring if it lived or died, but apparently assuming that if it lived… it...

The U.S. military plans to allow regional combatant commanders to request the president for approval to carry out preemptive nuclear strikes against possible attacks on the United States or its allies with weapons of mass...

Below I have posted the super top secret leaked memo that is referenced in Londonbear’s excellent diary: The top secret minutes of a July 2002 meeting have been leaked and published by the Sunday Times. Present were Blair,...