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    Yeah, the Roman Empire around the end of the 4th century CE.  Of course, they weren't "able" to support their…
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  • So, the Washington Post wants to require commentors to post using their real name?  When the Post makes available the…
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  • You're quite correct about just blind luck potentially affecting the outcome of a sortie.  While it's fiction, the story told…
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  • Hey, BooMan, let me make your day about Baucus's bomb by offering a decent comparison to what he's labored to…
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  • How the Republican Party has been able to survive in a nation which is supposed to be preternaturally disposed to…
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  • 'Tis strange indeed to think that had Bush opted for a tough inspection regime in the spring 2003 rather than…
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  • Ed, following your logic, we would be able to identify just what the subsidy is that the Federal government is…
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  • A valid and effective foreign policy and geopolitical strategy would have been for Bush to push for a muscular inspection…
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  • Steven, trust me, that spelling from an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering could very well be real.  I knew a…
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  • Not only would Israel not destroy any nuclear program Iran might have had, when the dust settled that day the…
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  • No evidence exists that Wilson's mind was already made up during the Presidential election of 1916 that he would be…
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  • Re Warren Harding, I would give you some points for identifying something positive about the Harding.  However, what did Harding…
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  • Re Wilson's ranking, I believe perhaps you have forgotten the 1917 Zimmerman telegram's effect on Wilson's decision to join the…
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  • And the best way to clean the agency of the filth appointed by Bush-Cheney would be to terminate the agency…
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  • Having large, nation-spanning banks wasn't the problem.  Look at Canada.  Virtually all of their banking is accomplished with just a…
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  • The "poor order" comes from the immediate possibility that all of those alpha males might suddenly find themselves being looked…
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  • As Joseph Fouche is reputed to have said: "It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.".  Bombing from…
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  • "...rumors are flying that the Obama administration wants a new military dictatorship in Pakistan and is pushing the "militants getting…
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  • Yes, but hell for whom?  That passage fare is actually pretty decent for a Med cruise.  Just think of the…
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  • Actually, we got less than bupkis.  When intelligence operations go wrong, the intelligence agency using the bogus information wastes time…
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