Month: August 2007

More on the Surge

Jeff Emanuel, a former special operations veteran and a current embedded journalist, has some cautiously optimistic words about the Surge, both in terms of how it’s working right now, and in terms of the possible benefits we can see from it.  Bottom line:  people who give up on the Surge

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Race based politics

Last night I watched a wonderful movie.  It’s called Street Fight, and it follows the unsuccessful 2002 mayoral campaign political neophyte Cory Booker ran against long-time Newark, New Jersey incumbent Sharpe James.  Both are Democrats and African Americans, with the former being a light skinned Rhodes Scholar, and the latter

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One plus one equals 32

There’s fact, and there’s speculation. From the fact that he found some documents indicating that medieval men would enter into a formal contract to share bed, board and income, a “scholar” has extrapolated this into supporting the conclusion that the medieval world supported gay relationships: For example, he found legal

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