Month: July 2014

It’s a broad group of people, I doubt one can maintain them as a centralized terror organization. Is the Jewish Defense League (JDL} officially listed as a terror group, and in which countries? h/t gk @ET Jewish Defense...

I just had the pleasure of reading Harry S. Truman’s acceptance speech (pdf) at the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was there that President Truman announced that he was calling for a...

How much does it matter that Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell absolutely hate each other? I mean, what if they were replaced by, say, Chuck Schumer and John Cornyn? Or Dick Durbin and John Thune? How much would really change? I...

When a state governor mobilizes the National Guard to go mill aimlessly around at the border, who ultimately pays for that? I honestly don’t know how everything is financed. Obviously, the usual purpose of mobilizing the...

298 mostly European civilians lost their lives when a civilian airliner was apparently shot down by a sophisticated homing missile available only to the most advanced armies in the world and fired from an area controlled by...