Month: October 2007

Kick the Nancy Can

skippy the bush kangaroo takes a kick at the Nancy can and so can you: i am nancy pelosi’s earful and so can you! my letter you are an embarassment to americans, nancy. representative stark spoke the truth. you can’t...

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The Future of Disaster Relief

God knows we can’t rely on the National Guard to bail us out when natural disasters strike. They’re much too busy in Iraq and Afghanistan. And God forbid we expect the “drowned in a bathtub” federal...

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NYT: Strange Article on Syrian Site

William Broad and Mark Mazzetti have a fascinating article in the New York Times about the Syrian facility that the Israelis attacked in early September. They show two satellite photos…one from August 10th, 2007 (before...

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Do We Care About Losing Dems?

Kevin Drum asks a question: The liberal blogosphere shares several widely held principles, and two of them come into conflict here: 1. As political realists, we should give some breathing room to centrist Dems in reddish...

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The failure of the “Anbar model’s success”

A lot has been made of the success in Anbar, even though the so-called “surge” had absolutely nothing to do with Anbar, and the tactics used in Anbar are vastly different from those used in Baghdad. And while metrics such as...

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